Announcing Deno Cron

Announcing Deno Cron

Scheduling tasks in deployed applications is surprisingly difficult. Deno clearly understand this, and they've added a new Deno.cron(name, cron_definition, callback) mechanism for running a JavaScript function every X minutes/hours/etc.

As with several other recent Deno features, there are two versions of the implementation. The first is an in-memory implementation in the Deno open source binary, while the second is a much more robust closed-source implementation that runs in Deno Deploy:

"When a new production deployment of your …

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