--- title: Cron Jobs on Railway | daily.dev description: A step-by-step guide on deploying cron jobs on Railway using JavaScript and the node-cron library. Covers scaffolding a TypeScript project with DTS, adding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cron-jobs-on-railway-czitlv6sh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cron Jobs on Railway | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide on deploying cron jobs on Railway using JavaScript and the node-cron library. Covers scaffolding a TypeScript project with DTS, adding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cron-jobs-on-railway-czitlv6sh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cZitlV6SH.png og:image:alt: Cron Jobs on Railway og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cron Jobs on Railway **[Railway Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/railway-blog)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide on deploying cron jobs on Railway using JavaScript and the node-cron library. Covers scaffolding a TypeScript project with DTS, adding node-cron, writing a basic scheduled task, and deploying it to Railway via the CLI with no extra configuration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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