James Ritchie
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* Adds new features table to top of v4 upgrade guide * Adds wait idempotency to wait-until, wait-for, and wait-for-token pages * Adds new priority docs page and updates the v4 upgrade guide * Adds new task lifecycle hooks * Removes the message about requiring tasks to be exported * Adds new global lifecycle hooks section * Moves sections from upgrade guide into the table * Adds hidden task page * Improves the global lifecycle hooks section * Updates middleware and locals section * Adds new useWaitToken page to the react hooks section * Adds a new ai.tool section * Moves Docker (legacy) page into self-hosting section * Removes known issues from v4 upgrade guide * Replace “toolTask” with “ai.tool” in the Streams page example * Renames guide to “Migrating from v3” and adds redirect * Remove references to v4 * Removes changelog from migration guide * The installation guide now references `@latest update` * Changes all references from `/sdk/v3` to `/sdk` * Updates @v4-beta to @latest * Fixed broken link * Fixes broken link * Adds an upgrade to v4 using AI section * Fixes 2 broken links * Adds an entry for targetting preview branches * Updates the run statuses * Adds boolean helpers section to the runs and realtime pages * Updates the concurrency page * Updates the test page to include the new options * Adds SDK and curl options for the preview branch targeting * Updates new bulk actions page * Remove the releasing concurrency section * Got rid of some more @v4-beta mentions * Improved rate limit docs * Improved migrating docs * Removed commented sections of the docs * useWaitToken hook * Fixed the description * Fix for missing test image --------- Co-authored-by: Matt Aitken <matt@mattaitken.com> Co-authored-by: Dan <8297864+D-K-P@users.noreply.github.com>
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title: "Writing tasks: Overview"
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sidebarTitle: "Overview"
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description: "Tasks are the core of Trigger.dev. They are long-running processes that are triggered by events."
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---
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import ExamplesCards from "/snippets/examples-cards.mdx";
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Before digging deeper into the details of writing tasks, you should read the [fundamentals of tasks](/tasks/overview) to understand what tasks are and how they work.
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## Writing tasks
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| Topic | Description |
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| :------------------------------------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| [Logging](/logging) | View and send logs and traces from your tasks. |
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| [Errors & retrying](/errors-retrying) | How to deal with errors and write reliable tasks. |
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| [Wait](/wait) | Wait for periods of time or for external events to occur before continuing. |
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| [Concurrency & Queues](/queue-concurrency) | Configure what you want to happen when there is more than one run at a time. |
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| [Realtime notifications](/realtime/overview) | Send realtime notifications from your task that you can subscribe to from your backend or frontend. |
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| [Versioning](/versioning) | How versioning works. |
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| [Machines](/machines) | Configure the CPU and RAM of the machine your task runs on |
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| [Idempotency](/idempotency) | Protect against mutations happening twice. |
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| [Replaying](/replaying) | You can replay a single task or many at once with a new version of your code. |
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| [Max duration](/runs/max-duration) | Set a maximum duration for your task to run. |
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| [Tags](/tags) | Tags allow you to easily filter runs in the dashboard and when using the SDK. |
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| [Metadata](/runs/metadata) | Attach a small amount of data to a run and update it as the run progresses. |
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| [Usage](/run-usage) | Get compute duration and cost from inside a run, or for a specific block of code. |
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| [Context](/context) | Access the context of the task run. |
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| [Bulk actions](/bulk-actions) | Run actions on many task runs at once. |
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| [Priority](/runs/priority) | Specify a priority when triggering a task. |
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| [Hidden tasks](/hidden-tasks) | Create tasks that are not exported from your trigger files but can still be executed. |
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<ExamplesCards />
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