A Node.js cron job to ping an endpoint and log the response status code.

index.js

import fetch from 'node-fetch';
import schedule from 'node-schedule';

const apiUrl = 'http://api:3000/healthcheck';

const ping = async () => {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(apiUrl);
    console.log('status', response.status);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log('error', error);
  }
};

// every day at 8:00am
schedule.scheduleJob('0 8 * * *', ping);