[Support]: How to use node-schedule? about listr2 HOT 4 CLOSED

Thank you for the kind words,

Since this library is mostly intended for CLI tasks with a user sitting in front of it I do think I can omit this feature to keep the library non-bloated.

If the proposed solution works, I will close out the issue now, you can always re-open it. But if you can find a wait to specifically await for the cronjob rather than having a event-emitter like callback then I suppose the proposed solution will serve you just fine.

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Hey @cdwmhcc,

We have to somehow keep the task alive until this scheduled job finishes.

schedule.scheduleJob is a event emitter in this case which decouples from the current context. I am not sure how to use that specific library and await for the job itself, but i think it is not by design.

You can inside the task give a try to keep the task alive. Something like:

const rule = new schedule.RecurrenceRule()
const job = schedule.scheduleJob("*/5 * * * * *", async () => {
      try {
          // something
          task.output = "success!"
      } catch (e) {
          console.log(e)
      }
})
task.output = "finished!"
await new Promise()

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Hey @cdwmhcc,

We have to somehow keep the task alive until this scheduled job finishes.

schedule.scheduleJob is a event emitter in this case which decouples from the current context. I am not sure how to use that specific library and await for the job itself, but i think it is not by design.

You can inside the task give a try to keep the task alive. Something like:

const rule = new schedule.RecurrenceRule()
const job = schedule.scheduleJob("*/5 * * * * *", async () => {
      try {
          // something
          task.output = "success!"
      } catch (e) {
          console.log(e)
      }
})
task.output = "finished!"
await new Promise()

Thank you for your quick reply and hard work, listr2 works great!

It would be even better if there was a timer/loop built in!

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@cenk1cenk2 You are right, more features are not necessarily better, keep it streamlined and stay healthy! Thanks again for your help!

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