Task Scheduling & Cron Jobs

A beginner-friendly backend project that teaches task scheduling by building a reminder application with NestJS, a NoSQL database, and cron jobs. Users can create reminders, and the system automatically checks and sends them at the right time.

What You Will Learn

• What is task scheduling
• What cron jobs are and how they work
• How to schedule recurring background tasks in NestJS
• How to store reminder data in a NoSQL database
• How to query pending reminders
• How to process due reminders automatically
• How backend systems handle timed and repeated work