How should I handle cron jobs on nodester?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7807402

  •  26-10-2019
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Question

I'd like to watch for certain changes on a couchdb in a NodeJS app, currently hosted on Nodester.

Is it OK to just open long polling sockets or use setTimeout() in a Nodester app? Or is there some typical way people handle this on Nodester or similar hosts?

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Solution

Node.js apps are long running processes by nature, so you can handle these problems in the process.

I would see no problem in using setInterval to either run the task on a fixed interval or check a task queue on a fixed interval. This should work just fine.

Any questions let me know.

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