Durable Workflows

A task queue application demonstrating how to use Temporal for durable workflows, with a local Temporal server in development and Temporal Cloud in production.

Live Demo

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Source Code

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How it works

Development: Runs a local Temporal server automatically via specific dev
Production: Connects to Temporal Cloud using configs and secrets

Get started

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or whichever agent you use:

Help me get started with Specific by following https://start.specific.dev, using the Durable Workflows example

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Your agent installs the Specific and Temporal CLIs, clones the example, runs it locally, and walks you through deploying.

Install prerequisites

Install the Temporal CLI from https://docs.temporal.io/cli

curl -fsSL https://specific.dev/install.sh | sh

git clone https://github.com/specific-dev/examples.git
cd examples/node-workflows
npm install

Start the development server

specific dev

Open the URL shown in the output to schedule tasks and view their status.

Deploy to production

Then deploy:

specific deploy

You will automatically be prompted to input secrets and config values for a Temporal Cloud API Key, namespace and address.