Next.js + Trigger Is The Combo You've Been Waiting For (Background Jobs = SOLVED)

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.