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# Durable workflow with Upstash Workflow

A minimal multi-step job with retries and a durable sleep on Neon Functions, with job state in Lakebase Postgres.

- First Party: maintained by Neon
- Built by: Neon
- Categories: First Party, Workflow

## Install

```bash
neon functions new upstash-workflow
```

## What it does

This template has a single handler and no named operations, so it's a starting point for your own code. To try it, run it locally with [`neon dev`](https://neon.com/docs/cli/dev.md) first, and deploy it to a branch with [`neon deploy`](https://neon.com/docs/compute/functions/deploy.md) once it works.

## Environment variables

The CLI declares these variables in `neon.ts` and adds them to `.env.example` without values, so you need to fill in the required ones before you run the function.

| Variable | Description | Required |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `QSTASH_URL` | QStash endpoint, copied from the Quickstart section of the Upstash Console. It is region-specific and may differ from https://qstash.upstash.io. Locally, use the URL printed by \`npx @upstash/qstash-cli dev\`. | Yes |
| `QSTASH_TOKEN` | QStash token, copied from the Quickstart section of the Upstash Console. It is region-specific and must match QSTASH\_URL. POST /api/jobs uses it to start workflow runs. | Yes |
| `QSTASH_CURRENT_SIGNING_KEY` | Current signing key, copied from the Quickstart section of the Upstash Console. It must match QSTASH\_URL's region. The workflow endpoint uses it to verify that requests come from QStash. | Yes |
| `QSTASH_NEXT_SIGNING_KEY` | Next signing key, copied from the Quickstart section of the Upstash Console. It must match QSTASH\_URL's region and is used to verify requests during key rotation. | Yes |

## Related

- Previous: [Durable workflow with Inngest](https://neon.com/functions/templates/inngest-workflow.md)
- Next: [Send email with Resend](https://neon.com/functions/templates/resend-email.md)
- [All templates](https://neon.com/functions/templates.md)
- [Template source](https://github.com/neondatabase/examples/tree/main/registry/upstash-workflow)
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