Extend with Go - Jobs scheduling - Docs

If you have tasks that need to be performed periodically, you could setup crontab-like jobs with the builtin app.Cron() (it returns an app scoped cron.Cron value) .

The jobs scheduler is started automatically on app serve, so all you have to do is register a handler with app.Cron().Add(name, cronExpr, handler) or app.Cron().MustAdd(name, cronExpr, handler) (the latter panic if the cron expression is not valid).

Each scheduled job runs in its own goroutine and must have:

name - identifier for the scheduled job; could be used to replace or remove an existing job
cron expression like 0 0 * * * ( supports numeric list, steps, ranges or macros )
handler - the function that will be executed everytime when the job runs

To remove already registered cron job you can call app.Cron().Remove(name)

Here is one minimal example:

// main.go
package main

import (
    "log"

    "github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase"
)

func main() {
    app := pocketbase.New()

    // prints "Hello!" every 2 minutes
    app.Cron().MustAdd("hello", "*/2 * * * *", func() {
        log.Println("Hello!")
    })

    if err := app.Start(); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
} 