Trigger.dev
Open-source platform for building and deploying reliable background jobs, scheduled tasks, and AI workflows in TypeScript.
Trigger.dev is an open-source workflow orchestration platform built for developers who want to define automation in code, not in visual GUI editors. You write TypeScript tasks — background jobs, scheduled crons, event-driven pipelines, or long-running AI agents — and Trigger.dev handles the execution infrastructure: retries, timeouts, concurrency limits, real-time logging, and a dashboard for monitoring runs.
It integrates natively with Next.js, Remix, and other Node.js frameworks via an SDK, so you can trigger workflows directly from your API routes or webhooks. The platform also supports durable execution — if a task is interrupted mid-run, it resumes from where it left off rather than restarting from scratch. This makes it particularly well-suited for AI agent pipelines that call slow LLM APIs or perform multi-step operations.
Compared to Zapier or Make, Trigger.dev is squarely developer-first: workflows live in your codebase, are version-controlled, and are tested like any other code. It is self-hostable via Docker and also available as a managed cloud service.
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