Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs

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Learn about Trigger.dev V2, a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs, and how to use it for reliable background jobs and integrations

intermediate Published 3 Oct 2023

Action Steps

Build a background job using Trigger.dev V2 and Next.js
Configure serverless timeouts for reliable job execution
Add new API integrations for unsupported services using Trigger.dev V2's contribution framework
Test and deploy long-running server support with Trigger.dev V2
Compare Trigger.dev V2 with Temporal for ease of use and integration capabilities

Who Needs to Know This

Backend developers and DevOps engineers can benefit from Trigger.dev V2 for building reliable background jobs and integrations, making it easier to self-host and contribute to

Key Insight

💡 Trigger.dev V2 simplifies building reliable background jobs and integrations, making it easier for developers to self-host and contribute to

Full Article

Back in February, we posted a Show HN about building a “developer-first open source Zapier alternative” ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686 ). This was v1 of Trigger.dev. During the months since, we’ve gathered a lot of feedback from early users and realized that what developers actually wanted was more like an easier-to-use Temporal with integrations. Here’s what we’ve learned so far: - Serverless timeouts make it hard for anyone to write reliable background jobs. So our current product makes that easy for Next.js and other full-stack React frameworks. Long-running server support is coming soon. - We simplified the architecture to make it far easier to self-host. This was the most common comment in our previous Show HN. - We made it much easier to contribute to. You can now add new API integrations for any service we don’t already support. Either publicly (we appreciate PRs) or privately in your existing codebase. We’re open about what we’re building ( https

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