Send an event to Inngest and deduplicate it idempotently with an event id
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Documented steps
Install and instantiate the client: `npm i inngest`, then `export const inngest = new Inngest({ id: "my-app" })`. Only `id` is required. Ref: https://www.inngest.com/docs/reference/client/create
Set `INNGEST_EVENT_KEY` in the environment for production sends (or pass `eventKey` to the client constructor). Event keys are NOT required against the local Dev Server. Ref: https://www.inngest.com/docs/events
Send one or many events: `const { ids } = await inngest.send([{ name: "app/invoice.created", data: { invoiceId } }])`. `send()` accepts a single payload or an array and returns `{ ids: string[] }`. Ref: https://www.inngest.com/docs/reference/events/send
Payload fields: `name` (required, lowercase dot notation), `data` (required, JSON-serializable), `id` (optional dedup key), `ts` (optional ms timestamp), `v` (optional payload version string such as "2023-04-14.1").
For idempotency, set a deterministic `id` on the payload, e.g. `id: `invoice-created-${invoiceId}``. Inngest ignores any later event carrying an id it has already seen, regardless of the payload body.
Verify delivery in the Dev Server UI at http://localhost:8288 or in the Inngest dashboard's Events view; the returned `ids` array maps 1:1 to the payloads you sent.
Known gotchas
The dedup window for an event `id` is 24 hours from the first event bearing that id — it is not permanent. Ref: https://www.inngest.com/docs/events
Dedup ignores payload contents entirely: resending the same `id` with corrected `data` silently drops the correction. Include a version/attempt suffix in the id when the payload can legitimately change.
Event size is plan-gated (Free 256KiB, Basic 512KiB, Pro 3MiB). A single send request is capped at 5000 events and 10MiB total. Ref: https://www.inngest.com/docs/usage-limits/inngest
Inside a running function use `step.sendEvent(id, payload)` instead of bare `inngest.send()` — step.sendEvent is durable, memoized on retry, and ties tracing context to the current run. A bare `inngest.send()` in a function body re-fires on every step retry. Ref: https://www.inngest.com/docs/guides/sending-events-from-functions
TypeScript SDK v4 removed the top-level `event.user` field for reads inside handlers; put anything the function needs into `event.data`. Ref: https://www.inngest.com/docs/reference/typescript/v4/migrations/v3-to-v4
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