{"id":12176,"date":"2016-04-27T12:11:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T09:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2016-04-24T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:39:33","slug":"scheduling-jobs-node-js-node-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/javascript\/node-js\/scheduling-jobs-node-js-node-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling jobs on Node.js with node-schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Batching is a great part of todays software development. The business world runs on batch from bank statements to promotion emails.<\/p>\n

Node.js has some good libraries for such cases.<\/p>\n

Node Schedule<\/a> is a light cron like scheduler for node.<\/p>\n

npm install node-schedule<\/pre>\n
In case your are used to cron<\/a> and the cron expression format, it will be pretty easy for you.<\/p>\n
var scheduler = require('node-schedule');\r\n \r\nvar montlyJob  = scheduler.scheduleJob('0 0 1 * *', function(){\r\n  console.log('I run the first day of the month');\r\n});<\/pre>\n
But you also have a javascript object approach<\/p>\n
var scheduler = require('node-schedule');\r\n\r\nvar rule = new scheduler.RecurrenceRule();\r\nrule.hour = 7\r\nrule.dayOfWeek = new schedule.Range(0,6)\r\n \r\nvar dailyJob = schedule.scheduleJob(date, function(){\r\n  console.log('I run on days at 7:00');\r\n});\r\n\r\nscheduler.scheduleJob(rule,task);<\/pre>\n
Also you can have tasks submitted by giving a date<\/p>\n
var scheduler = require('node-schedule');\r\n\r\nvar date = new Date(2017, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0);\r\nvar newYearJob = scheduler.scheduleJob(date, function() {\r\n    console.log(\"Happy new year\");\r\n});<\/pre>\n
However in case your job is not needed you can cancel it pretty easy<\/p>\n
newYearJob.cancel();<\/pre>\n
\n\n\n\n
Reference: <\/span><\/td>\nScheduling jobs on Node.js with node-schedule<\/a> from our WCG partner<\/a> Emmanouil Gkatziouras at the gkatzioura<\/a> blog.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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