A guide to scheduled tasks

[Coding-Sock]

I'd be interested in seeing a guide on how to create a scheduled events.
Some examples of this would be things like:

• Creating a reminder command where you schedule a reminder in X amount of time or at a specified time
  (~remind #channel Cool thing happens 12h)
• A command that creates a repeating message, perhaps add in some random timing
  (~announcement repeat 6h message contents for announcement type thing)
• Having the bot create a post once a day in a channel at a specific time
  (~dailymessage #channel fancy embed message
• Have the bot scheduled to edit and update a post once every X amount of time
  (~updatepost messageid new version of embed message
• Schedule a command to execute repeatedly at a specific time
  (~schedule 24h ~prune #channel)

It would be some useful learning in terms of creating long running background tasks that have to persist through reboots, and tracking the ID of a past message to update it.

[conqr2]

Someone should add the package node-cron to useful packages

[almostSouji]

The goal of this guide is to explain in greater verbosity than possible on the library's documentation how to use it to write a functioning bot with some useful features. Having a section for absolutely any possible command out there is not part of this goal.

Adding a scheduler to useful-packages with a short example is the extent to which this will be covered.