node-cron vs node-background-job

node-cron

Cron for NodeJS. (by kelektiv)

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node-background-job

A job server which allows to schedule your nodejs scripts. (by VinceZK)

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node-cron		node-background-job
	Project
6	Mentions	1
8,215	Stars	11
0.5%	Growth	-
9.3	Activity	3.2
8 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	-

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node-cron

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-cron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-16.

10 Issues That Will Help You Grow as a top contributor in Opensource 🏅🏅
12 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2023

option to wait for callbacks completion on job.stop() #713
I built a Discord bot to teach me Portuguese
1 project | dev.to | 25 Dec 2022

The ideal situation would be for Cuca bot to send me my vocab list daily at a convenient time to practise. The best solution was cron. The cron syntax is quite straightforward once you understand it.
node-cron VS croner - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Oct 2022
best practices for saving and serving a computationally expensive report
1 project | /r/node | 29 Jul 2022

node-cron should also be able to accomplish this. I haven't used this module before but it gets recommended fairly often.
Alternatives to cron jobs
1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 19 Oct 2021

Node has a great package called cron which I've been using: https://github.com/kelektiv/node-cron
Best way to run a user defined Cron?
1 project | /r/node | 5 Jun 2021

Sure, i used to use that one: cron

node-background-job

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-background-job. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-04.

A Job Scheduler for End Users
3 projects | /r/node | 4 Jun 2021

In the job list page, you can search the existing jobs. Click New to create a new Job. ![Job List](https://github.com/VinceZK/node-background-job/blob/master/docs/JobList.png)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing node-cron and node-background-job you can also consider the following projects:

Cronicle - A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI.

json-on-relations - An entity framework in NodeJS

bree - Bree is a Node.js and JavaScript job task scheduler with worker threads, cron, Date, and human syntax. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @spamscanner, @cabinjs.

Bee-Queue - A simple, fast, robust job/task queue for Node.js, backed by Redis.

agenda - Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js

cron-to-quartz - Node.js library to convert unix or linux CRON syntax to Quartz Scheduler

QuartzNet - Quartz Enterprise Scheduler .NET

josk - Node.js setInterval and CRON tasks scheduler and manager for horizontally scaled multi-server applications

firecamp - Developer-first OpenSource API DevTool, Postman/Insomnia alternative.

companyicons - SVG React icon set for popular APIs, by the makers of Trigger.dev.

croner - Trigger functions or evaluate cron expressions in JavaScript or TypeScript. No dependencies. Most features. Node. Deno. Bun. Browser.

apitable - 🚀🎉📚 APITable, an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.