agenda VS Next.js

While many ways to write scalable Node.js applications exist, all narrow down to the underlying architecture. However, common hurdles in Node.js include serving static files, task scheduling, and utilizing available resources. To combat these, you can use a tactical approach. Because serving static assets with Node.js takes CPU time, a proxy content delivery network like CloudFront should help fix it. Recurring tasks need to fire events, which isn’t reliable with setTimeout or setInterval. As a solution, you can use a task scheduler framework like agenda.js. To handle resource utilization, you can use the cluster feature in Node.js, which listens to ports, accepts new connections, and distributes them across workers with built-in smarts to avoid overloading the process.

Now we have the materialized view and we need to update it daily. For this, we'll use Agenda, a light-weight job scheduling library for Node.js with Mongo backed persistence layer.

6. agenda

There are many job queue implementations for Node.js, including Bull, Bee, and Agenda.

Agenda JS is an alternative to bull that uses MongoDB rather than redis. Not saying one is better than the other, just giving alternatives.

If processing the file is going to take a relatively long time, you should send it to some asynchronous background process and immediately send a response to the user with status 202, then notify them later somehow if processing the file failed. Agenda is a good candidate for scheduling/managing more complex background tasks like this.

So I thought of 2 approaches, one using [agenda](https://github.com/agenda/agenda] and other using setTimeouts and storing the unique id for particular user in database. I am not sure which of the approach is scalable and maintainable in long run for thousands of users having daily activities.

i think it would be helpful if you provided some links to what you're talking about. How on earth are we supposed to help without knowing which agenda package you're referring to? I went through the agenda github repo and not one of those files mentioned in your post even exists in that repo........

For more advanced use cases, you might want to look into using a full-featured job queue instead like bree, bull, or agenda.

Vite and Next.js are both top 5 modern development framework right now. They are both great depending on your use case so we’ll discuss 4 areas: Architecture, main features, developer experience and production readiness. After learning about these we’ll have a better idea of which one is best for your project.

> It’s important to be aware of what you are getting if you go with React, and what you are getting is a far cry from what a framework would offer, with all the corresponding pros and cons.

Would you like to elaborate on that?

In my experience, with something as great, size/ecosystem-wise as React, there will almost always be at least one "mainstream" package for whatever you might want to do with it, that integrates pretty well. Where a lot of things might come out of the box with a framework, with a library I often find myself just needing to install the "right" package, and from there it's pretty much the same.

For example, using https://angular.io/guide/i18n-overview or installing and using https://react.i18next.com/

Or something like https://angular.io/guide/form-validation out of the box, vs installing and using https://formik.org/

Or perhaps https://angular.io/guide/router vs https://reactrouter.com/en/main

Even adding something that's not there out of the box is pretty much the same, like https://primeng.org/ or https://primereact.org/

React will typically have more fragmentation and therefore also choice, but I don't see those two experiences as that different. Updates and version management/supply chain will inevitably be more of a mess with the library, admittedly.

Now, projects like Next https://nextjs.org/ exist and add what some might regard as the missing pieces and work well if you want something opinionated and with lots of features out of the box, but a lot of those features (like SSR) are actually pretty advanced and not always even necessary.

Next.js: For the website and the admin dashboard

Until the time of writing, there is no official example of how to enable runtime environmental variables in a Dockerized Next.js app, as utilizing unstable_noStore would only dynamically evaluate variables on the server (node.js runtime). There is also an interesting discussion regarding this topic on GitHub.

next.js is a very popular React framework. remix-adonisjs includes more functionality through the AdonisJS backend ecosystem, and should be easier to self-host and self-manage.

Cheryl Murphy is not only a dedicated full-stack web developer skilled in technologies like React, Next.js, and NestJs but also a community-driven professional who recently took on the role of volunteer project team lead at Web Dev Path. With a dual Bachelor's degree in Computing and Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Cheryl’s journey in tech is marked by a passion for building accessible solutions and a commitment to fostering community within tech.

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