trigger.dev vs node-cron

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trigger.dev		node-cron
	Project
23	Mentions	6
7,178	Stars	8,206
7.3%	Growth	0.9%
9.9	Activity	9.3
3 days ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

trigger.dev

Posts with mentions or reviews of trigger.dev. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-16.

10 Issues That Will Help You Grow as a top contributor in Opensource 🏅🏅
12 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2023

[TRI-1401] feat: Add support for tabler-icons when using the `icon` for Tasks #616
Show HN: Algora – open-source coding bounties
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2023

thanks a lot james! you guys pioneered the video bounty use case, was so impressive seeing 10 videos submitted in just a single day!
https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/issues/249
Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Oct 2023

- Support for Background Functions – we deploy your code so you can run any length of task. You write the code like any other job in your codebase. Discussion here: https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/discussions/400
Trigger.dev - Background jobs framework for NextJS, Remix, Astro, and so many more!
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 21 Sep 2023
🛠️ 10 Exceptional Developer Tools Launched in 2023 🚀
1 project | dev.to | 11 Sep 2023

9. Listen - Trigger.dev
Supabase Integrations Marketplace
2 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023

Trigger.dev (YC W23) is the open source Background Jobs framework for Next.js. You can create long-running Jobs directly in your codebase with features like API integrations, webhooks, scheduling and delays. And today you can use their one-click integration to trigger anything from a database change in Supabase.
How Trigger.dev makes serverless background jobs possible
2 projects | dev.to | 21 Jul 2023

Trigger.dev is fully open source and can be self-hosted. We have a cloud product too.
What's a good Zapier alternative?
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 13 Mar 2023
Trigger
1 project | /r/devopspro | 26 Feb 2023
Y Combinator invested $500k into my developer-first open source Zapier alternative!
4 projects | /r/webdev | 11 Feb 2023

We built a beta version of Trigger.dev in a few months

node-cron

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-cron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-16.

10 Issues That Will Help You Grow as a top contributor in Opensource 🏅🏅
12 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2023

option to wait for callbacks completion on job.stop() #713
I built a Discord bot to teach me Portuguese
1 project | dev.to | 25 Dec 2022

The ideal situation would be for Cuca bot to send me my vocab list daily at a convenient time to practise. The best solution was cron. The cron syntax is quite straightforward once you understand it.
node-cron VS croner - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Oct 2022
best practices for saving and serving a computationally expensive report
1 project | /r/node | 29 Jul 2022

node-cron should also be able to accomplish this. I haven't used this module before but it gets recommended fairly often.
Alternatives to cron jobs
1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 19 Oct 2021

Node has a great package called cron which I've been using: https://github.com/kelektiv/node-cron
Best way to run a user defined Cron?
1 project | /r/node | 5 Jun 2021

Sure, i used to use that one: cron

What are some alternatives?

When comparing trigger.dev and node-cron you can also consider the following projects:

automatisch - The open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.

Cronicle - A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.

activepieces - Your friendliest open source all-in-one automation tool ✨ Workflow automation tool 100+ integration / Enterprise automation tool / Zapier Alternative

bree - Bree is a Node.js and JavaScript job task scheduler with worker threads, cron, Date, and human syntax. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @spamscanner, @cabinjs.

y-sweet - A standalone yjs server with persistence to S3 or filesystem.

agenda - Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js

windmill - Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (5x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool.

node-background-job - A job server which allows to schedule your nodejs scripts.

spec - The canonical spec for ulid

cron-to-quartz - Node.js library to convert unix or linux CRON syntax to Quartz Scheduler

jsonhero-web - JSON Hero is an open-source, beautiful JSON explorer for the web that lets you browse, search and navigate your JSON files at speed. 🚀. Built with 💜 by the Trigger.dev team.

QuartzNet - Quartz Enterprise Scheduler .NET