Service Worker Cron Jobs Demo

You may want to ask, "What's the difference between a hosted service and a background thread?" The difference is that the hosted service will be started and stopped with the application. While, when starting a background thread, the thread cannot gracefully handle clean-up actions and will be killed when the application is stopped. The HostedServiceExecutor will handle the starting and stopping of a hosted service, which allows for graceful cleanup when the application is stopped.

Starts from version 2.1, .NET Core provides a native abstract base class BackgroundService, which includes common operations for background jobs such as CancellationToken and housekeeping works.

Medium Article: Schedule Cron Jobs using HostedService in ASP.NET Core

In this blog post, we will go over the use case of scheduling cron jobs using a customized HostedService in an ASP.NET Core Web API project. The following screen recording shows the runtime logging for the final application, which has three background tasks running at every 5 minutes, every 1 minute, and every day at 12:50 PM.

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