Node-cron in multiuser environment

Question

I am trying to create an app using node, in which users can schedule certain cron jobs ,the setting for these job I am fetching from the users and saving it to mongoDB .I need my app to be such that users can start stop these jobs whenever they want . I have a class created which is something like this

Class Croncreator {
    constructor () {Creates the cron job}
    startCron ()
    stropCron()}

Now all this is working ,but I cannot wrap my head around how do I manage this in a multi user environment? Do I create an instance of this class in my express route for "/api/savecronjob" ,if yes then how do I manage the start stop feature .Considering the fact that 1 user may be creating multiple jobs a time and switching them on off when ever he wants.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '18 at 18:45

I solved the problem by using a NPM package called cron-job-manager. Read more about it NPM LINK The documentation is pretty self explanatory .

I basically created a function to create the cron jobs with a identifier,and created two routes to start and stop these jobs.

Node-cron in multiuser environment

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