Releasing Node Cron Extension

We're developing January, a comprehensive platform that enables you to build, integrate, test, and deploy APIs all in one place.Try it for free in the playground and have an API that you can share in seconds.

Scheduled tasks are a common requirement in many applications.

They can be used for a variety of purposes:

Sending out reminders
Performing maintenance tasks.
Update services and alert on their health.
Update search indexes.
Running reports.
Triggering updates to and from third-party APIs.

How does it work?

It uses node-cron package to schedule tasks in your January project. Mostly suitable for running tasks in a vertical scaling environment.

How I can use it?

Cron/scheduled triggers follows same setup as other triggers in January.

feature('Roadmap', {
  workflows: [
    workflow('SendReminder', {
      tag: 'posts',
      trigger: trigger.schedule({
        pattern: '0 0 * * *',
      }),
      // ...
    }),
  ],
  tables: {
    // ...
  },
});

Get Involved

You can try it out today in the playground. We’re always happy to hear your feedback.

Looking to the future, January team is running a survey to gather info from the ecosystem to help shape the API development sphere. If you have a minute, please fill out the survey.

What's next?

We're gathering insights around API development and looking forward for your contribution in the survey.