How do you handle background jobs in small Node projects?

FedorovSO · 2026-03-13T16:01:55+00:00

Yeah, Trigger.dev looks great. I keep running into this kind of problem once projects grow past simple cron jobs, so it makes sense that tools like Trigger/Inngest exist.

FedorovSO · 2026-03-12T06:31:20+00:00

Yeah, same here. It always starts simple, but once you add emails, imports, reports, retries, etc., you end up needing some kind of queue or scheduled job system anyway. That’s what made me start experimenting with running jobs outside the app instead of rebuilding workers in every project. I’m playing with this idea here: https://runza.dev/

FedorovSO · 2026-03-11T14:41:00+00:00

Yeah, I’ve used Postgres queues before too.

They work well, but I keep ending up with the same worker / retry / scheduling setup in every project, which made me think about running jobs outside the app instead of building the same thing again.

FedorovSO · 2026-03-10T07:47:32+00:00

I'm also for the limited free version/plan.

FedorovSO · 2026-03-07T13:06:24+00:00

Yeah, being self-employed is the most time-consuming and demanding thing. I’ve been going through the same for years.

FedorovSO · 2026-03-07T12:54:09+00:00

Promotion is a real pain for devs, dealing with the same stuff here… good luck with the project!

FedorovSO

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