node-background-job
gronx
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| 11 | 376 | |
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| 3.2 | 7.3 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 2 months ago | |
| JavaScript | Go | |
| - | MIT License |
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node-background-job
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A Job Scheduler for End Users
In the job list page, you can search the existing jobs. Click New to create a new Job. 
gronx
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How to run periodic tasks?
maybe use gronx https://github.com/adhocore/gronx
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is there an open library for validating cron job expression?
Check https://github.com/adhocore/gronx, there are more cron libraries, check if they have something like IsValid or MustParse.
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What is the correct way to start a go program that executes recurring tasks
personally, i would have used gronx/tasker as a task daemon that runs tasks on specific time as defined by Cron expression
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Released new gronx with feature to run as task scheduler/daemon both standalone or programmatically
for standalone use that supports crontab format file: https://github.com/adhocore/gronx#task-daemon
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Cron expression parser for Golang
View on GitHub
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Gronx is tiny library to parse cron expression in Go
also how do you use Next time? just being able to know next time is of no use as well. IsDue is meant to be used as if IsDue(...) { /* run something */ } it will be supported natively as task scheduler in long run: https://github.com/adhocore/gronx/issues/1
What are some alternatives?
node-cron - Cron for NodeJS.
gocron - Easy and fluent Go cron scheduling. This is a fork from https://github.com/jasonlvhit/gocron
json-on-relations - An entity framework in NodeJS
leprechaun - You had one job, or more then one, which can be done in steps
Bee-Queue - A simple, fast, robust job/task queue for Node.js, backed by Redis.
tasks - Package tasks is an easy to use in-process scheduler for recurring tasks in Go
go-quartz - Minimalist and zero-dependency scheduling library for Go
sched - A job scheduler for Go with the ability to fast-forward time.
cronticker - Golang ticker that works with Cron scheduling.
Faktory - Language-agnostic persistent background job server
cheek - cheek: a pico-sized declarative job scheduler
cron - a cron library for go