Trigger.dev Has a Free API — Background Jobs for Modern TypeScript Apps

What if you could write background jobs in TypeScript — with retries, scheduling, and observability — and deploy them alongside your Next.js or Remix app? Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for running long-running background jobs in serverless environments. Why Trigger.dev Serverless functions timeout after 10-60 seconds. Background jobs need minutes or hours. Trigger.dev bridges this gap: Long-running tasks — up to 5 minutes on free tier, hours on paid Retries with backoff — automatic retry on failure Cron scheduling — built-in cron syntax Real-time logs — see job progress in a dashboard TypeScript-native — define jobs as typed functions Self-hostable — open source, run on your own infrastructure Quick Start npx trigger.dev@latest init import { task } from "@trigger.dev/sdk/v3"; export const processOrder = task({ id: "process-order", retry: { maxAttempts: 3 }, run: async (payload: { orderId: string }) => { // This runs for as long as it needs — not limited by serverless timeou