Chronos

Chronos is a simple tool that let's you control and handle simple javascript cronjobs for your project.

Installation

Yarn:

yarn add https://github.com/argus-inc/chronos

NPM:

npm install @argus-inc/chronos

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Configuration

Create a file with your cron configuration. For each cron you will have to specify: path, recurrence, command, name

path: Specify an absolute path to the file you want to run as cron.

recurrence: The crontab recurrence string

command: The command the cron will be executed with eg: node

name: Name of the cron

[
    {
        "path": "/Users/xxx/programs/myProgram/cron/index.js",
        "recurrence": "*/5 * * * *",
        "command": "node",
        "name": "getEvents"
    },
    {
        "path": "/Users/xxx/programs/myProgram/cron/apiCall.js",
        "recurrence": "*/5 * * * *",
        "command": "node",
        "name": "getUsers"
    }
]

Add to package.json

You can then add this command as a script to your package.json.

"scripts": {
    "cron": "yarn run chronos --config=src/config/chronos.json",
},

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Author

Author: Argus

Developer: Mederic Burlet

Licence: GPL-3-0-only