Wait
Wait: Overview
During your run you can wait for a period of time or for something to happen.
Waiting allows you to write complex tasks as a set of async code, without having to scheduled another task or poll for changes.
In the Trigger.dev Cloud we automatically pause execution of tasks when they are waiting for longer than a few seconds.
When triggering and waiting for subtasks, the parent is checkpointed and while waiting does not count towards compute usage. When waiting for a time period (wait.for
or wait.until
), if the wait is longer than 5 seconds we checkpoint and it does not count towards compute usage.
Function | What it does |
---|---|
wait.for() | Waits for a specific period of time, e.g. 1 day. |
wait.until() | Waits until the provided Date . |
wait.forToken() | Pauses task runs until a token is completed. |