Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure background jobs for Node.js

Re:Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure backgroun... by johtso on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:18PM (#35100323)

How do I test my jobs?

Is there a local runtime a-la miniflare?

Or do I have to deploy and then run my unit tests against your APIs?

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Re:Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure backgroun... by gearnode on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:45PM (#35100764)

Locally (without `DEFER_TOKEN` environment variable), your functions run synchronously, but apart from this, you get the same API behavior (arguments serialization, execution id, etc.).

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Re:Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure backgroun... by johtso on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:40PM (#35102271)

This is fantastic! I was hoping it would "just work" and seems like it does! Unless I missed it I think the docs should explain this. It would definitely be a selling point for me compared with having to run a local server like with Temporal.

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Re:Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure backgroun... by bayesian_horse on Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:16AM (#35108041)

That was one of my questions too. Without a local execution for fallback there are all sorts of problems with this, especially in development.

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