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HomerPlata
HomerPlata

Reputation: 1787

Is it possible to run equivalent of a separate thread in Node.js to periodically perform async tasks automatically?

I understand that Node is essentially single threaded, but is there a way to achieve the kind of automated async behaviour that you could achieve in, for example, a Java Spring application by just sparking off a new Thread (or similar)?

My actual requirement is to periodically - and without prompting from a user event - iterate through various caches and selectively refresh only the data that has expired. The refresh itself can take some time, so ideally I don't want to wait until the user clicks before it decides to clean up the cache.

Alternatively, if there is a way to achieve this without having to create a completely independent thread, please enlighten me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (2)

Bhaurao Birajdar
Bhaurao Birajdar

Reputation: 1507

You can use cluster npm, so it will create multiple thread.

Using cluster it will create co worker

Ref code click here

Upvotes: 2

Sekar
Sekar

Reputation: 387

Use can use webworkers threads API of JS to implement this functionalty. Refer to the npm package for more information webworker-threads

Upvotes: 0

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