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Durable Workflows service diagram

How it works

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

Run locally

1

Install prerequisites

Install the Temporal CLI from https://docs.temporal.io/cli
npm i -g @specific.dev/cli
git clone https://github.com/specific-dev/examples.git
cd examples/node-workflows
npm install
2

Start the development server

specific dev
Open the URL shown in the output to schedule tasks and view their status.
3

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.