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Trigger.dev solves this by letting you define tasks outside the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/next-js-trigger-is-the-combo-you-ve-been-waiting-for-background-jobs-solved--ruzyou3cu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RUZyoU3cu.png og:image:alt: Next.js + Trigger Is The Combo You've Been Waiting For (Background Jobs = SOLVED) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Next.js + Trigger Is The Combo You've Been Waiting For (Background Jobs = SOLVED) **[ByteGrad](https://daily.dev/sources/bytegrad)** · 14 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building long-running background jobs in Next.js is tricky due to serverless function timeouts. Trigger.dev solves this by letting you define tasks outside the Next.js request-response cycle, with built-in retries, queuing, observability, and real-time progress streaming to the frontend. A demo app shows a video captioning workflow: uploading to Supabase, extracting audio, transcribing with OpenAI Whisper, generating SRT files, and burning subtitles into video using FFmpeg via Trigger's built-in extensions. Tasks are split for independent retry logic, and the useRealtimeRun hook streams progress updates to the UI. The Trigger dashboard provides full observability into task runs, logs, and subtask durations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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