Heroku (free) dynos are great for hosting apps and showing them off to your boss/friends or potential employer. The downside, however, is that your app will fall asleep 😴 if it doesn't receive any web traffic within a 30-minute window.
pingmydyno solves this by pinging your server periodically so it never falls asleep.
- Forever dyno pings
- Automatically retry ping on failure
npm install pingmydyno
# or using yarn
yarn add pingmydynoWith Express.js (ES6 module)
...
import express from 'express';
import pingmydyno from 'pingmydyno';
const app = express();
...
app.listen(PORT, () => {
pingmydyno('https://myapp.herokuapp.com');
});With Hapi.js (commonJS)
const Hapi = require('hapi');
const pingmydyno = require('pingmydyno');
const server = Hapi.server({ port, host });
async () => {
await server.start();
pingmydyno('https://myapp.herokuapp.com');
};With Koa.js
const Koa = require('koa');
const pingmydyno = require('pingmydyno');
const app = new Koa();
const url = process.env.APP_URL;
...
app.listen(3000).on('listening', () => {
pingmydyno(url, {
pingInterval: 60 * 15 * 1000, // ping every 15mins
onFailure() {
// logger
}
})
})pingmydyno(url, [Config])
Type: string
Required: yes
Type: Object
Required: no
| value | default | description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| pingInterval | number (milliseconds) | 1200000 | interval between the next ping (max = 25mins) |
| maxRetry | number | 2 | retry times when ping fail |
| onSuccess | function | ( ) => null | callback function called when a ping is successful |
| onFailure | function | ( ) => null | callback function called when maxRetry ping failed |
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 Kizito Akhilome 💻 |  Luqman Olushi O. 🐛 💻 📖 🚧 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
This project is license under MIT