Background tasks in Meteor

Question

I\'m wondering, is there is way to implement background taks, maybe with workers pool. Can you show me direction, i\'m thinking about writing package for this?

Answer 1

There is a package based on Cron jobs which can be used to schedule tasks on certain intervals or dates. Here is the package: https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/cron

And if you happen to look into the source of that package, you'll notice they're simply using:

Meteor.setInterval( ... , delay );

So if you save your tasks in a database, then load them into intervals during startup, then you'll probably be on the right track.