Automatic task in NodeJS/Firebase

Question

I have some functions in Firebase (with NodeJS) to make a post on Facebook. After an hour, I need to get the current status of this publication automatically. Is there any way to activate a task that makes the query to Facebook in exactly one hour after having made the publication?

Answer 1

The traditional way to do that would be with the setTimeout() method. I'm not experienced with firebase, but here's some pseudocode on how it might be done.

// Create facebook post
var post = createPost();
setTimeout(function() {
    // Code to execute in one hour
    post.getInformation();
}, 3600);