node-cron

Node Cron

Job scheduling for Node.js with overlap prevention, distributed coordination, and background tasks. Schedule recurring tasks with cron expressions, prevent overlapping runs, coordinate across multiple instances, and run heavy jobs in isolated background processes. Zero dependencies, written in TypeScript.

Full documentation: nodecron.com

Getting Started

npm install node-cron

import cron from 'node-cron';

cron.schedule('* * * * *', () => {
  console.log('running a task every minute');
});

Overlap Prevention

Long-running tasks can overlap when the next tick fires before the previous run finishes. noOverlap skips a run instead of stacking them: