job-scheduler

An asynchronous HTTP job scheduler boilerplate

Article-based documentation

https://medium.com/hurb-labs/job-scheduling-quick-and-slow-6651a1f8f370

Dependencies

• Docker

Running

Through docker-compose: docker-compose up --build

Local

make start - Starts both worker and server on a docker instance make start-server - Starts only server on a docker instance make start-worker - Starts only worker on a docker instance

All of the above commands assume you have configured your environment variables accordingly

Environment variables:

Name	Description	Default Value
APP_PREFIX	Application prefix, on logger entries	job-scheduler
NODE_ENV	NodeJs environment, which can be 'development' and 'production'	development
DEBUG	The debug filter expression. * means every log entry	job-scheduler*
SERVER_PORT	Local server port where the web server runs	3000
JOB_TOPIC	Name of the job topic to be created/read	jobs
MONGO_URI	Mongo connection string to where read/write job states	mongodb://mongo/jobs
NSQ_WRITER_ADDR	NSQ message bus where to publish job requests	nsqd:4150
NSQ_READER_ADDR	NSQ lookupd address where to listen for job requests	nsqlookupd:4161

Healthcheck:

• Live: /healthcheck
• Ready (check dependencies): /readiness

Postman endpoints:

Please check job-scheduler.postman_collection.json.