Heroku and node-cron?

Question

So I know Heroku\'s free dynos \'wind down\' when there isn\'t any traffic to them– how would this effect the cron jobs that I\'ve implemented using the node-cron module?

Answer 1

Jobs scheduled by node_cron won't run when your free dynos are sleeping.

As an alternative, you can use the Heroku Scheduler add-on to schedule your cron jobs. That will trigger one-off dynos to run your cron jobs. Provided you don't exceed your monthly allowance of free dyno hours, you will be able to run your cron jobs for free.