Hangfire in ASP.NET Core - Handle Background Jobs Easily

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Hi everyone. My name is Marinko Spasojevic and in this video, I will show you how to execute background work easily in .NET with the Hangfire library.
Almost all applications need some background work, and there are many situations where we need to keep that work away from the spotlight.
Sometimes it’s a long-running task that slows down the application flow. An example might be uploading photos to a social media platform. We can do the upload task behind the scenes and the user can continue to browse freely.
We may also need to schedule some tasks to run every hour, week, or maybe a month like watching out for inactive users or sending subscription invoices.
We can handle all these tasks with a good background task scheduler that takes care of the details for us. This is where Hangfire shines.
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[@ventoshe]

Very well explained, thanks! I've been using Hangfire for a few years now. It is reliable and very simple to use.

[@CodeMaze]

Great to hear that! Yeah, it is a great library and easy to use.

[@flave11]

I love your tutroals, Simple and direct.

[@CodeMaze]

Thank you, glad you like them.

[@10Totti]

Great video but: 1) What if I want to start a task without using APIs? 2) Is it possible to programmatically clean up older jobs? 3) Is there a way to prevent jobs from overlapping if they haven't finished yet? Thanks.

[@CodeMaze]

Hi Totti. 1) You are not tied only to ASP.NET Core apps. If you check their documentation, you will see they are using a regular, I would say, console app example. 2) Yes. Of course, if you think about recurring jobs. Again, I just looked at their documentation and there is an example here, it is pretty simple. 3) I believe you think if the job is scheduled for example every 5 minutes but for some reason, it takes more than 5 min to finish. Maybe there is a way, but I am not sure. Again, I think the best way would be to check their documentation about this. I looked for a bit but didn't find anything about it.

[@tommylg9748]

Love this

[@CodeMaze]

Thanks for watching the video. I'm glad you liked it.