Trigger.dev Has a Free Background Jobs Framework — Run Long Tasks with Retries and Scheduling in TypeScript

Why Trigger.dev? Trigger.dev runs background jobs in TypeScript with automatic retries, scheduling, and monitoring. No Redis, no Bull, no separate worker processes. npx trigger.dev@latest init Define a Job import { task } from ' @trigger.dev/sdk/v3 ' export const processOrder = task ({ id : ' process-order ' , retry : { maxAttempts : 3 }, run : async ( payload : { orderId : string }) => { const order = await db . getOrder ( payload . orderId ) await chargePayment ( order ) await sendConfirmationEmail ( order ) await updateInventory ( order ) return { success : true } }, }) Trigger from Your App import { processOrder } from ' ./trigger/process-order ' // From API route app . post ( ' /checkout ' , async ( req , res ) => { const order = await createOrder ( req . body ) await processOrder . trigger ({ orderId : order . id }) res . json ({ status : ' processing ' }) }) Scheduled Jobs (Cron) import { schedules } from ' @trigger.dev/sdk/v3 ' export const dailyReport = schedules . task ({ id