How to make automated notifcation Sender using Nodejs

Question

I wanted to make a function which will send the list of users a notification (Email) and want this to continue after every 6 hrs regularly. Something like this

function(){
   if(currentTime==scheduledTime){
      //Triger notification sender
      sendNotification();
      scheduledTime = (scheduledTime + 6 hrs);
   }
}

How can I implement this Feature. Also, where can I deploy this website with this kind of functionality for free.

Answer 1

You can use node-cron instead.You can setup the interval using cron syntax and it will run in a scheduled manner.

npm install --save node-cron

Then :

var cron = require('node-cron');

cron.schedule('* */6 * * *', () => {
  console.log('running a task every 6 hours');
  sendNotification();
});