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The node-cron module is tiny task scheduler in pure JavaScript for node.js based on GNU crontab. This module allows you to schedule task in node.js using full crontab syntax.

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node-cron run job every 3 hours

I am trying to run a node-cron job every 3 hours and I am not sure if I am doing it right. Right now I am using: * * */8 * * * Is this correct?
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Heroku and node-cron?

So I know Heroku's free dynos 'wind down' when there isn't any traffic to them– how would this effect the cron jobs that I've implemented using the node-cron module?
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How to make a Cron job for a typescript class method

In Typescript, I have a controller class that has a method that I want to run daily at 5am. My first thought was to schedule something using node-cron or node-scheduler, but these seem to be strictly for node projects, not typescript. What I need to…
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How to schedule node-cron job every new month?

I am using node-cron package for scheduling node-cron jobs. I want to schedule an node-cron job which will run every new month. for example: My node-cron job should run at 1 September 2020 after that it should run at 1 October 2020 and and so…
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Get next cron job timing in node-cron

In node-cron, how do I get the timing of the next cron-job? e.g. cronJob.nextCronJob().time, or other properties. There are no methods in the documentation to show this.
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How to stop a node cron job

I want to stop a node cron job on certain conditions. This is how I started the task to run every 1 second. const runScheduler = (url)=>{ cron.schedule('*/1 * * * * *', () => { console.log('running a task every one second'); …
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Node.js CronJob execution when using mocha for testing

So, I've got some js code which is a slackbot which supposed to simply listen and parse the date provided, then start a CronJob to run a certain function according to the cron or date format provided. Something like this. var CronJob = require…
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Edit the tasks created using node-cron

Trying to run the tasks based on schedule using node-cron 'https://github.com/merencia/node-cron'. Task creation and starting it: var cron = require('node-cron'), task = cron.schedule('* * * * * *', function () { console.log('task…
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Node-cron jobs running on fixed week-days

I know this might sound a bit dumb, but can I use node-cron to create two crone-jobs to run on two days of the week which are non-consecutives? Do I need to call two CronJob functions, or is there a way to use only one?
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fs.writeFile (node) adds information on an already existing file instead of replacing this

I made a code to write a file using fs and node-cron to run this every x minutes. I get the data the first time, but in the next job I get the data added again in the file and the old one too, I wan to create a new file and replace the old one (and…
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How can I monitor node-cron queued jobs?

I recently started using node-cron as a job scheduler. I have a lot of jobs that are being queued. Is there a way I can monitor them using a visual tool (something like Agendash does for Agenda)? Or how would you monitor and debug jobs in general?…
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Is there any way to get milliseconds in CronJobs?

I want to trigger a JavaScript function every 500ms using node cron jobs, though I couldn't find a way to make the cron execute any lower than a 1 second interval. cron.schedule("*/1 * * * * *", function() { console.log("running a task every 1…
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node-cron timezone working only when time-zone is same as machines time zone

EDIT: - this has been resolved in "node-cron" version > "3.0" I have the following code. "node-cron": "^2.0.3" cron.schedule('46 00 * * *',() => { //code to be executed console.log("Tik") },{ scheduled: true, timezone:…
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Does node-cron run tasks in parallel?

I have some scheduled tasks in my node app. These are scheduled using node-cron. I just want to confirm onething. By using node-cron, will these tasks be executed in parallel? I am aware that node.js is single threaded. By using node-cron, will I be…
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Task Scheduling / CRON Jobs on NestJS + Serverless / Lambda

We are looking to deploy a NestJS application (using Express) to AWS Lambda (or similar) using the Serverless framework (or similar). How should we handle scheduled tasks / cron jobs? I notice in the NestJS documentation that NestJS has an official…
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