[Feature Request] Cron

Would love something built in for cron jobs. Right now, I might be able to hack something together by creating a function in the functions directory (which is mapped to a URI), and finding some other means to call that uri on a schedule.

However, I feel like this would be perfect for a separate cron directory, with accompanying config for a schedule or means to enqueue a job. Of course, this opens a whole can of worms in regards to the infrastructure needed to support this, and the need for workers and queueing, etc.

I totally understand this probably falls below other higher priority tasks like authentication and Typescript, but just thought this would be needed by a multitude of apps down the road. Would be happy to help here.

[cannikin]

Yeah we definitely see a need for a product like this and may be working on something to fill it. 👀 If/when that product is available you can be sure that Redwood will have something like ActiveJob for integrating with it.

If you need something immediately check out https://www.easycron.com/ If you make a custom function like api/src/functions/custom.js and deploy to Netlify it will be available at /.netlify/functions/custom and can be called from the internet at large. You can setup a one-time call to that function or a recurring job on easycron and be good to go.

[sw-yx]

just leaving this for future people who search - you can add cronjobs in github actions - https://www.swyx.io/writing/github-scraping/