bree VS piscina

If you only need a single instance, you can use Bree to handle your cron jobs without blocking your main thread.

Been using https://github.com/hexagon/croner and https://github.com/breejs/bree depending on the use case, both are currently being maintained.

Bree is another package with support for workers threads and cron syntax. But for the purpose of this article, we will stick to node-cron. So let's run a simple example:

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

An impressive scheduling package I use is called Bree: https://github.com/breejs/bree

Bree is a super cool cron like scheduler that uses workers to run jobs https://github.com/breejs/bree

Workers multi-threading via Tinypool (a lightweight fork of Piscina)

For threading best to use piscina and for clustering best to use pm2 which does not even need one line of code change in Node.js code.

We used piscina at it was quite good: https://github.com/piscinajs/piscina

We used Benchmark.js for benchmarking and piscina as a pool for worker threads. benchmark.js was used to run the same code in 2 scenarios - one using a single thread and one using the piscina pool. The degree of parallelism was passed to the program via an environment variable. The test code is present in worker.js in both the cases.

piscina for managing node's worker threads

One other thing...this passed by in my feeds last week, I’m not an expert in web workers or browser threads etc, but it seems like it might be relevant, so sharing it just in case:

“A fast, efficient Node.js Worker Thread Pool implementation”

https://github.com/piscinajs/piscina

This is by no means a complete list of what piscina can do.... checkout the official docs here.