mkmandar123 / backend_assignment

NodeJS app for managing long running tasks

👓 NodeJS backend with APIs to execute long running tasks and stop them in between

Instructions

1. This repository has Dockerfile, so you can create docker image by running docker build command.
2. The app.js contains PORT variable which is set to 8080, you can modify if needed.
3. Once app is started you can send GET request to /longTask endpoint to start long running task.
4. You will see the PID for long running task, if you want to stop that task you can pass that PID to /killprocess/:pid endpoint.

API Endpoints

This app provides two APIs:

• /longTask (This endpont will start a long task as child process)
• /killprocess/:pid (Here you can specify the id of process which you want to stop)

Use Case

You can use this to execute and stop long running tasks

References used:

• NodeJS Docs To understand how the process work in NodeJS.
• NodeJS Docker Docs To understand how to create docker image for the app.

💻 Thank You