Question

I see many applications that uses node runs forever.

Therefore, I tried using setInterval method, which I assumed it will let it run forever, but apparently it doesn’t.

var request = require('request');

var queue = function(item) {
  request({
    uri: 'http://www.google.net'
  },
  function(error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
      console.log(body) // Print the google web page.
    }
  })
};
setInterval(queue("google"),1000); //do this every 1 second.

When I run above program, it stops after a second.

How can I can modify above codes to keep it running if I run it with node?

Answer 1

Actually you have a bug in your code:

setInterval(queue("google"),1000); //do this every 1 second.

Instead of passing a function above as the first parameter, you are passing the result of executing a function.

So either do setInterval(queue, 1000) or do the following if you want multiple params:

setInterval(function() {
  queue(how_many_params_you_want);
}, 1000);