Scheduled Execution in Express Using Cron Jobs

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  • express-cron

    Now, we’ll set up an express server and see how we can use the node-cron package; you can find the project repository here. The first step is to create an express server. To do this, we’ll create an "express-cron" folder and initialize a node application with this command:

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    Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development

    The nodemon package from the above command will automatically restart the server when file changes are detected. Once we’ve added the required packages, we’ll add scripts to package.json.

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