21, Jul 2023

TRIGGER PUSH NOTIFICATION WHEN JOB DONE RUNNING WITH NODEJS LANGUAGE

Palzin Track Nodejs Use Cases

Get a notification when your NodeJs code is done executing

These days we can use Nodejs for almost anything, be it a simple function, a complex algorithm, or anything that comes to mind. Usually, what we want Nodejs to do happens very quickly, and we don't even have to wait for it to finish.

Long-running NodeJs tasks are a problem

However, sometimes you are writing a NodeJs code, process, or job that may take a long time to run. For example, you may decide to crawl a website or run a long-running parsing algorithm.

I'm sure almost every developer has, at some point, written a NodeJs code that takes a long time to run. They then had to continuously check the task, wait for it to finish running, and ensure the NodeJs code was working as expected. As you can see, this gets tedious very quickly and wastes time and effort.

Push notifications fix this problem

One common way to solve this is to track the status of our NodeJs code and send a push notification when the code is done running or when it fails. By doing so, we can leave and forget about the long-running NodeJs code and focus on the important things we need to do, and by the time something happens, we will instantly get a push notification to let us know.

To do so, we can use Palzin Track to track the status of our NodeJs code. Palzin Track is a simple, easy-to-use, robust event tracking and notification system that lets you track your NodeJs code and send push notifications when something happens.

Let's walk you through setting up and using Palzin Track to track the status of our NodeJs code.


Setting up Palzin Track

  1. Sign up for a free Palzin Track account.
  2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
  3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

NodeJs code snippets

Now that we have our account and project setup, we can copy the following code snippet, update the values with your information, and paste it into your code.

Using NodeJs with Axios


var axios = require('axios');  


var data = JSON.stringify({  


 "project": "my-project",  


 "channel": "crawler",  


 "event": "Crawling is complete",  


 "description": "Successfully crawled 1,230 pages.",  


 "icon": "🔥",  


 "notify": true  


});  


var config = {  


 method: 'post',  


 url: 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log',  


 headers: {   


 'Content-Type': 'application/json',   


 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'  


 },  


 data : data  


};  


axios(config)  


.then(function (response) {  


 console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));  


})  


.catch(function (error) {  


 console.log(error);  


});

Using NodeJs with Native


var https = require('follow-redirects').https;  


var fs = require('fs');  


var options = {  


 'method': 'POST',  


 'hostname': 'palzin.live',  


 'path': '/api/v1/log',  


 'headers': {  


 'Content-Type': 'application/json',  


 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'  


 },  


 'maxRedirects': 20  


};  


var req = https.request(options, function (res) {  


 var chunks = \[\];  


 res.on("data", function (chunk) {  


 chunks.push(chunk);  


 });  


 res.on("end", function (chunk) {  


 var body = Buffer.concat(chunks);  


 console.log(body.toString());  


 });  


 res.on("error", function (error) {  


 console.error(error);  


 });  


});  


var postData = JSON.stringify({  


 "project": "my-project",  


 "channel": "crawler",  


 "event": "Crawling is complete",  


 "description": "Successfully crawled 1,230 pages.",  


 "icon": "🔥",  


 "notify": true  


});  


req.write(postData);  


req.end();

Using NodeJs with Request


var request = require('request');  


var options = {  


 'method': 'POST',  


 'url': 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log',  


 'headers': {  


 'Content-Type': 'application/json',  


 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'  


 },  


 body: JSON.stringify({  


 "project": "my-project",  


 "channel": "crawler",  


 "event": "Crawling is complete",  


 "description": "Successfully crawled 1,230 pages.",  


 "icon": "🔥",  


 "notify": true  


 })  


};  


request(options, function (error, response) {  


 if (error) throw new Error(error);  


 console.log(response.body);  


});

Using NodeJs with Unirest


var unirest = require('unirest');  


var req = unirest('POST', 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log')  


 .headers({  


 'Content-Type': 'application/json',  


 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'  


 })  


 .send(JSON.stringify({  


 "project": "my-project",  


 "channel": "crawler",  


 "event": "Crawling is complete",  


 "description": "Successfully crawled 1,230 pages.",  


 "icon": "🔥",  


 "notify": true  


 }))  


 .end(function (res) {   


 if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error);   


 console.log(res.raw_body);  


 });

NodeJs integration details

Palzin Track provides several other features that can be used to simplify your job as a developer. For example, suppose you're working with a team. In that case, you can also add the rest of your team to your Palzin Track project and allow them to see the status of your NodeJs code and receive push notifications when something important happens.

Palzin Track also keeps track of your previous events, so you can see what has happened in the past and search through previous events. We found this to be very powerful when we are working on larger projects and need to see what has happened in the past.

In addition, Palzin Track allows you to create simple dashboards, charts, and graphs that give you more insight into your code and the events you track.

Other use-cases for Palzin Track

  1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your NodeJs application
  2. Monitor your CPU usage in your NodeJs application
  3. Monitor when database goes down in your NodeJs application
  4. Monitor high disk usage in your NodeJs application
  5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your NodeJs application
  6. Monitor failed logins in your NodeJs application
  7. Monitor failed payments for your NodeJs application
  8. Monitor memory usage in your NodeJs application
  9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your NodeJs application
  10. Monitor when a new feature is used in your NodeJs application
  11. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your NodeJs application
  12. Monitor Redis downtime in your NodeJs application
  13. Monitor suspicious activity in your NodeJs application
  14. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your NodeJs service
  15. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your NodeJs application
  16. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using NodeJs
  17. Track canceled subscriptions in your NodeJs application
  18. Track your NodeJs cron jobs
  19. Track when a file is uploaded to your NodeJs application
  20. Track when a form is submitted to your NodeJs application
  21. Track payment events via NodeJs
  22. Track user sign in events in NodeJs
  23. Monitor user signup events via NodeJs
  24. Track waitlist signup events via NodeJs

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