James Ritchie
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* tasks no longer inside a group in the side menu (and added “cron”) * Delay using a timezone * Added React Not Defined error to the troubleshooting page * Improved the React common problem * Link to v2 docs * New Development section and entry in Common Problems * Concurrently running the terminal * Fixed the .env weirdness * Added section on creating PATs for Github actions * Improved the Machine spec and limits page * Quick start steps now have nice images * Added a diagram for the lifecycle functions * Added note about onFailure * CRON -> cron/Cron * WIP adding more steps to the next.js guide * WIP next.js * WIP adding tabbed steps for pages/app router * References to Infisical links to their homepage so it’s clearer * WIP updating the nextjs guide * WIP nextjs guide * More nextjs guide steps * More copy * Added rate limit trouble shooting * Removed old prisma error title * Added secret key step * Added a note for logging in using a specified domain if self hosting * typo * App router docs copy * Deploy copy update * Added a favicon.png to fix a docs build error * Removed unused snippet * Server actions now inside a tab * Server actions + restructured the triggering section * Added troubleshooting snippet for react event handlers * Added a new troubleshooting snippet for ESM * Updated old replaying image to reflect the new UI * Removed references to reattempting * Updated replaying from the run page * Added a bulk replay section * Updated the writing tasks intro page * Removed edge runtime code for now * Added edge runtime – it seems to just work! * import type
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title: "Writing tasks: Introduction"
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sidebarTitle: "Introduction"
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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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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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| [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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| [Notifications](/notifications) | Send realtime notifications from your task that you can subscribe to from your backend or frontend. |
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