Trigger.dev
Open-source background jobs and AI agent workflows in TypeScript, with retries and long runs. · Trigger.dev · Compute
Overview
Trigger.dev runs your TypeScript tasks on managed workers.
Good fit
Use for TypeScript background jobs without running workers yourself.
- Next.js apps
- AI agents
Not a fit
Avoid for heavy compute on the free credit.
- heavy compute
Quickstart · 3 steps
- Sign up at trigger.dev.
- Run npx trigger.dev@latest init in your project.
- Write a task and deploy.
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