Delayed
Delayed jobs are a special type of job that instead of being processed as fast as possible is placed on a special "delayed set" where it will wait until the delay time has passed and then it is processed as a regular job.
In order to add delayed jobs to the queue, simply use the "delay" option with the amount of time in milliseconds that you want to delay the job with.
Note that it is not guaranteed that the job will be processed at the exact delayed time specified, as it depends on how busy the workers are when the time has passed and how many other delayed jobs are scheduled at that exact time. In practice, however, the delay time is quite accurate in most cases.
This is an example of how to add delayed jobs to a queue:
import { Queue } from 'bullmq';
const myQueue = new Queue('Paint');
// Add a job that will be delayed by at least 5 seconds.
await myQueue.add('house', { color: 'white' }, { delay: 5000 });
If you want to process the job after a specific point in time, just add the time remaining to that point in time. For example, let's say you want to process the job on the third of July 2035 at 10:30:
const targetTime = new Date("03-07-2035 10:30");
const delay = (targetTime - new Date()).getTime();
await myQueue.add('house', { color: 'white' }, { delay });
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