[SUBMIT] Strapi Cron Jobs Best Practices

[a7medayman6]

Strapi Cron Jobs Best Practices

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This article explores Strapi Cron Jobs, offering best practices and applications. It covers native setup, addressing scaling challenges, and external Cron Jobs. You'll also discover real-world use cases for web applications.

• Target audience: Intermediate Strapi Developers

• Keywords: best-practice, strapi, cron, crontab, cronjob, scaling

• Sources:

  • [ LEARN MORE ] We are always looking for writers to write posts about Strapi Dev Best Practices. #1155
  • Strapi Development Best Practices 006 - Cronjobs within Strapi (Youtube)

• Content outline:

  • Introduction

    • What is Strapi?
    • What are Cron jobs?
    • Cron jobs importance
    • Prerequisites

  • Strapi Cron jobs basics

    • Setting up Cron jobs natively in Strapi (step-by-step)
    • Cron jobs in action!

  • Native Strapi Cron jobs issues and workarounds

    • What is horizontal scaling
    • Why it's an issue for native Strapi Cron jobs
    • Solution 1: External lock
    • Solution 2: External Cron Job

  • External Cron Jobs for scaling Strapi

    • Create custom route
    • Using crontab to call the custom route
    • Using Github Actions to call the custom route
    • Using Cron-job.org to call the custom route

  • Conclusion

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[hana75]

Thanks @a7medayman6 for your submission. Topic is interesting.
As we are revamping the Write For the Community program, we'll pause incoming request. I'll make sure to come back to you to present the new program.
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