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Trigger.dev

Open-source TypeScript platform for background jobs and long-running AI workflows.

Trigger.dev is a platform for building AI workflows and background tasks in TypeScript, with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling. Developers write tasks with its JavaScript/TypeScript SDK and run them in the vendor cloud or self-host with Docker Compose or Kubernetes.

Documented features

• Executes long-running tasks with no timeouts
• Provides a JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for writing background tasks
• Self-hosts via Docker Compose or Kubernetes
• Runs durable cron schedules with recurrence up to one year
• Supports waitpoints for human-in-the-loop approvals
• Records full tracing and logs for each run with real-time alerts
• Retries and checkpoints tasks automatically for durability
• Offers concurrency controls, queues, and batch triggering
• Supports development, staging, preview, and production environments

Feature summaries come from the project's own repository and documentation and describe the software as documented on the verification date, not an evaluation.