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From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 11:42:22 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add Exit Function Early Without Retries as an Inngest TIL

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 README.md                                     |  7 ++-
 .../exit-function-early-without-retries.md    | 44 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 inngest/exit-function-early-without-retries.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8c1bb3c..4bccbbd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pairing with smart people at Hashrocket.
 
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-_1361 TILs and counting..._
+_1362 TILs and counting..._
 
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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ _1361 TILs and counting..._
 * [Heroku](#heroku)
 * [HTML](#html)
 * [HTTP](#http)
+* [Inngest](#inngest)
 * [Internet](#internet)
 * [JavaScript](#javascript)
 * [jq](#jq)
@@ -389,6 +390,10 @@ _1361 TILs and counting..._
 
 - [What Counts As Cross-Origin With CORS?](http/what-counts-as-cross-origin-with-cors.md)
 
+### Inngest
+
+- [Exit Function Early Without Retries](inngest/exit-function-early-without-retries.md)
+
 ### Internet
 
 - [Add Emoji To GitHub Repository Description](internet/add-emoji-to-github-repository-description.md)
diff --git a/inngest/exit-function-early-without-retries.md b/inngest/exit-function-early-without-retries.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7482e16
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+++ b/inngest/exit-function-early-without-retries.md
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Exit Function Early Without Retries
+
+When an Inngest function fails due to an error, it will be retried up to 3
+times with a scheduled back-off. That functionality is built-in. In some cases,
+there is no sense retrying because the failure case isn't going to change. No
+sense in wasting resources on retries that are going to yield the same result.
+
+In this case, we can have our code raise a `NonRetriableError`.
+
+```javascript
+import { NonRetriableError } from "inngest"
+import {inngest} from '@/inngest/inngest.server'
+import {database} from '@/server/database'
+
+export default inngest.createFunction(
+  { id: "reindex-post-for-search" },
+  { event: "post.updated" },
+  async ({ event }) => {
+    const post = await database.findPost({ id: event.data.postId })
+
+    if(!post) {
+      throw new NonRetriableError(`Post not found for id (${event.data.postId})`)
+    }
+
+    // handle reindexing of the post
+  }
+)
+```
+
+When inngest catches a `NonRetriableError` it knows to not schedule retries.
+
+In the context of a try/catch block where some other error has been raised, we
+can pass that error as a second argument to the `NonRetriableError` for
+additional info:
+
+```javascript
+catch(err) {
+  const message = `Post not found for id (${event.data.postId})`
+
+  throw new NonRetriableError(message, { cause: err })
+}
+```
+
+[source](https://www.inngest.com/docs/functions/retries)