Package
node-cron
Job scheduling for Node.js with overlap prevention, distributed coordination, and background tasks. Zero dependencies, written in TypeScript.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 4.1m
- +167% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 2 months ago
- v4.6.0
- GitHub stars
- 3.3k
- 283 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 1 / 6
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 128
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
4,052,225 downloads last week, 19,331,195 in the last month. The 12-month change of +167% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 539 in total
- Latest version
- 4.6.0, 5 Jul 20262 months ago
- First published
- 4 Feb 2016
- Last push to GitHub
- 11 Sept 202614 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 1
- Open pull requests
- 6
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 128
- Dependents on npm
- 2,701
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 10 May 2025
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 10 Mar 2021
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 10 Sept 2018
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 9 Feb 2016
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 4 Feb 2016
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 4.6.0 | 5 Jul 2026 |
| 4.5.0 | 21 Jun 2026 |
| 4.4.1 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| 4.4.0 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| 4.3.0 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| 4.2.1 | 10 Jul 2025 |
| 4.2.0 | 1 Jul 2025 |
| 4.1.1 | 20 Jun 2025 |
| 4.1.0 | 31 May 2025 |
| 4.0.7 | 22 May 2025 |
| 4.0.6 | 20 May 2025 |
| 4.0.5 | 13 May 2025 |
| 4.0.4 | 12 May 2025 |
| 4.0.3 | 11 May 2025 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=20
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 320 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install node-cron- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/node-cron@4.6.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/node-cron@4.6.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/node-cron@4.6.0
Indexability: Indexed.