How to make node-schedule work in Heroku?

Question

I am running jobs from the 'node-schedule' module.

On localhost everything works great but when I upload to production in Heroku it doesn't.

i have changed my timezone in the settings -> var config to TZ at Asia/Jerusalem but it still doesn't work. Any idea why? Uploading my code although I think it is something with Heroku, not the code. Currently updating every minute just to test it, usefully its once every 1.5 hours

const schedule = require("node-schedule");
const needle = require("needle");

let j = schedule.scheduleJob("* /1 * * * *", function() {
    needle.put("https://myserver.herokuapp.com/myendpoint");
});

Answer 1

I am successfully using cron jobs on Heroku and Azure with following code. I am using cron

import { CronJob } from 'cron';

  const doSomething = new CronJob(
    '0 0 * * 1', //cron time
    fnname, //replace with your function that you want to call
    null, //oncomplete
    false, //start flag
    'America/Los_Angeles',// timezone
  );
  
  doSomething.start()