Wanting to save some data every 30 days from an external game server on my t3 app server database.
So I have a function that gets the 'total accounts' from an external api, every 30 days I want to save that number to my prisma database (running on the create-t3-app server), what would be a smart way to save this data
I am thinking I would need to check if its been 30 days since the last data save, if yes then insert a new value with the date
If not then wait ?
But I am not sure how to do this properly
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node-cron maybe?
Introducing Vercel Cron Jobs – Vercel
Automate repetitive tasks using Vercel Cron Jobs and Vercel Functions. Available today in beta.
i hate to say im not using vercel but im not using vercel
There’s a bunch of CRON providers outside of vervet I feel like Theo had mentioned some he liked specifically in the past Im trying to find where but can’t seem to do so
going to setup my app in vercel now and give it a go anyway
but i did find this and this might work
https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/custom-server
Advanced Features: Custom Server | Next.js
Start a Next.js app programmatically using a custom server.
Best of luck
If you dont want to setup someone sort of outside cron jobs, you could use
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-cron
npm
node-cron
A simple cron-like task scheduler for Node.js. Latest version: 3.0.2, last published: 7 months ago. Start using node-cron in your project by running
npm i node-cron. There are 896 other projects in the npm registry using node-cron.I do recommend dedicated crons though 🙂