🔗 How to handle background jobs and events easily with Inngest

Modern web applications need background jobs to maintain smooth user experiences—sending welcome emails, running reports, processing files, and triggering alerts. Traditionally, this required setting up job queues and worker servers, adding infrastructure complexity and monitoring overhead.

Inngest eliminates this complexity by allowing you to define background functions as event-driven jobs. Your app emits an event (like user/created), and Inngest automatically invokes the right function reliably at scale without requiring you to manage servers or queues.

DigitalOcean App Platform provides streamlined deployment from GitHub repositories with automatic building, deploying, and scaling. Using App Platform’s SaaS Add-Ons feature, you can integrate Inngest with your application in just a few clicks.

This tutorial will guide you through deploying your app on App Platform, adding Inngest as a SaaS Add-On, configuring environment variables, syncing your app with Inngest, and testing the integration. By the end, your application will handle background jobs without additional infrastructure management.