In web-application, is there any way to run a function at a specific time even if I am not on the webpage?

Question

class App extends React.Component {

  state = {
    seconds: moment().format('HHmmss'),
    turned: true,
  }

  tick() {
    this.setState(() => ({
      seconds: moment().format('HHmmss'),
    }));
    if (this.state.seconds >= '233000' && this.state.seconds <= '234000') { //make turned false between 23:30 - 23:40
      this.setState(() => ({
        turned: false,
      }));
    }
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.interval = setInterval(() => this.submitToToday(), 1000);
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    clearInterval(this.interval);
  }

submitToToday() {
    if (this.state.seconds >= '234500' && this.state.seconds <= '235500' && this.state.turned === false) {
      // HERE MongoDB update that I want to run
      this.setState(() => ({
        turned: true,
      }));
    }
  }

In this code, I set to run the function "submitToToday()" once between 23:45 - 23:55.

This works fine when I am on the webpage but this would do nothing when I am not on the webpage. Is there any way that I can run the code even if I am not on the webpage?

Or, is it possible to make the hosting service just open the webpage? I am using DigitalOcean.

Answer 1

If it is a DB operation as the comment suggest, the best way to do this would be in a CRON job. For Meteor just select one of the packages for CRON jobs that you like the most on Atmosphere: https://atmospherejs.com/?q=cron After that you can call a Meteor method which is going to create a new entry in the CRON to run the given task at the given time.