Trigger.dev TypeScript Background Jobs Platform

Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for building and deploying long-running background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows in TypeScript. It provides managed infrastructure with retries, queues, real-time observability, and human-in-the-loop support.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• Docker self-hosting guide - use Docker Compose to spin up a Trigger.dev instance

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• True runtime freedom: Customize your deployed tasks with system packages – run browsers, Python scripts, FFmpeg and more.
• Build extensions - Hook directly into the build system and customize the build process. Run Python scripts, FFmpeg, browsers, and more.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Website | Docs | Issues | Example projects | [Feature requests](ht...

• Observability & monitoring: Each run has full tracing and logs. Configure error alerts to catch bugs fast.

• Automatic retries - If your task encounters an uncaught error, we automatically attempt to run it again

• Source: https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange