what do you need to run it for?

and why don't you use concurrently?

and set your script to this. it'll run concurrently.

"scripts": {
  "dev": "concurrently \"next dev\" \"node cron.js\""
}

I have a route that takes 5-10 seconds to process, this is not very good for users. Therefore, when I start the Next application, I want to immediately launch cron, which will send a request to this route, in which the data will be cached. This way, when the user opens the page, he will immediately get the result from the cache.

I don't use concurrently because I want run cron only after running next.js.

Why don’t you cache using nextjs?

Because the first request will be from the user. I want to cache after running next.js.

After 1 request, remaining will be cached for x amount of time.

Yes, I know. But I want to cache data after the running application.

so you can use concurrency, and use setTimeout every 5s waiting for app to be started, and send a fetch request, and exit the app once you get status 200

@Anay-208 Thank you!

can you mark my message as a solution?