diff --git a/crawlab/app.py b/crawlab/app.py
index d72aa40f..7a3f60b9 100644
--- a/crawlab/app.py
+++ b/crawlab/app.py
@@ -15,15 +15,13 @@ file_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
 root_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(file_dir, '.'))
 sys.path.append(root_path)
 
-from config import FLASK_HOST, FLASK_PORT, PROJECT_LOGS_FOLDER, BROKER_URL
-from constants.manage import ActionType
+from config import FLASK_HOST, FLASK_PORT, PROJECT_LOGS_FOLDER
 from routes.deploys import DeployApi
 from routes.files import FileApi
 from routes.nodes import NodeApi
 from routes.spiders import SpiderApi, SpiderImportApi, SpiderManageApi
 from routes.stats import StatsApi
 from routes.tasks import TaskApi
-from tasks.celery import celery_app
 
 # flask app instance
 app = Flask(__name__)
@@ -72,5 +70,8 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     if not os.path.exists(PROJECT_LOGS_FOLDER):
         os.makedirs(PROJECT_LOGS_FOLDER)
 
+    # run scheduler as a separate process
+    scheduler.run()
+
     # run app instance
     app.run(host=FLASK_HOST, port=FLASK_PORT, threaded=True)
diff --git a/crawlab/config.py b/crawlab/config.py
index 5b1dee95..a3f09ba4 100644
--- a/crawlab/config.py
+++ b/crawlab/config.py
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ MONGO_DB = 'crawlab_test'
 
 # flask variables
 DEBUG = True
-FLASK_HOST = '0.0.0.0'
-FLASK_PORT = 5000
+FLASK_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
+FLASK_PORT = 8000
diff --git a/crawlab/requirements.txt b/crawlab/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 95fc504c..00000000
--- a/crawlab/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-amqp==2.4.1
-apscheduler==3.5.3
-aniso8601==4.1.0
-asn1crypto==0.24.0
-attrs==18.2.0
-Automat==0.7.0
-Babel==2.6.0
-billiard==3.5.0.5
-celery==4.2.1
-certifi==2018.11.29
-cffi==1.11.5
-chardet==3.0.4
-Click==7.0
-constantly==15.1.0
-cryptography==2.5
-cssselect==1.0.3
-dnspython==1.16.0
-docopt==0.6.2
-eventlet==0.24.1
-Flask==1.0.2
-Flask-Cors==3.0.7
-Flask-RESTful==0.3.7
-flower==0.9.2
-greenlet==0.4.15
-hyperlink==18.0.0
-idna==2.8
-incremental==17.5.0
-itsdangerous==1.1.0
-Jinja2==2.10
-kombu==4.3.0
-lxml==4.3.1
-MarkupSafe==1.1.0
-mongoengine==0.16.3
-monotonic==1.5
-parsel==1.5.1
-pyasn1==0.4.5
-pyasn1-modules==0.2.4
-pycparser==2.19
-PyDispatcher==2.0.5
-PyHamcrest==1.9.0
-pymongo==3.7.2
-PyMySQL==0.9.3
-pyOpenSSL==19.0.0
-python-scrapyd-api==2.1.2
-pytz==2018.9
-queuelib==1.5.0
-redis==3.1.0
-requests==2.21.0
-Scrapy==1.6.0
-scrapy-redis==0.6.8
-scrapy-splash==0.7.2
-service-identity==18.1.0
-six==1.12.0
-tornado==5.1.1
-Twisted==18.9.0
-urllib3==1.24.1
-vine==1.2.0
-w3lib==1.20.0
-Werkzeug==0.14.1
-zope.interface==4.6.0
diff --git a/crawlab/routes/base.py b/crawlab/routes/base.py
index 4106cae1..0df9d9b5 100644
--- a/crawlab/routes/base.py
+++ b/crawlab/routes/base.py
@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ class BaseApi(Resource):
             if k not in DEFAULT_ARGS:
                 values[k] = args.get(k)
         item = db_manager.update_one(col_name=self.col_name, id=id, values=values)
+
+        # execute after_update hook
+        self.after_update(id)
+
         return item
 
     def post(self, id=None, action=None):
@@ -122,3 +126,6 @@ class BaseApi(Resource):
 
     def delete(self, id=None):
         db_manager.remove_one(col_name=self.col_name, id=id)
+
+    def after_update(self, id=None):
+        pass
diff --git a/crawlab/routes/spiders.py b/crawlab/routes/spiders.py
index aaeca318..af6fdbea 100644
--- a/crawlab/routes/spiders.py
+++ b/crawlab/routes/spiders.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from constants.node import NodeStatus
 from constants.task import TaskStatus
 from db.manager import db_manager
 from routes.base import BaseApi
+from tasks.scheduler import scheduler
 from tasks.spider import execute_spider
 from utils import jsonify
 from utils.deploy import zip_file, unzip_file
@@ -25,6 +26,10 @@ from utils.spider import get_lang_by_stats
 parser = reqparse.RequestParser()
 parser.add_argument('file', type=FileStorage, location='files')
 
+IGNORE_DIRS = [
+    '.idea'
+]
+
 
 class SpiderApi(BaseApi):
     col_name = 'spiders'
@@ -75,6 +80,9 @@ class SpiderApi(BaseApi):
             items = []
             dirs = os.listdir(PROJECT_SOURCE_FILE_FOLDER)
             for _dir in dirs:
+                if _dir in IGNORE_DIRS:
+                    continue
+
                 dir_path = os.path.join(PROJECT_SOURCE_FILE_FOLDER, _dir)
                 dir_name = _dir
                 spider = db_manager.get_one_by_key('spiders', key='src', value=dir_path)
@@ -274,6 +282,9 @@ class SpiderApi(BaseApi):
             'items': items
         })
 
+    def after_update(self, id=None):
+        scheduler.update()
+
 
 class SpiderImportApi(Resource):
     parser = reqparse.RequestParser()
diff --git a/crawlab/tasks/scheduler.py b/crawlab/tasks/scheduler.py
index f227dce8..540b7158 100644
--- a/crawlab/tasks/scheduler.py
+++ b/crawlab/tasks/scheduler.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import requests
-from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BlockingScheduler
+from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
 from apscheduler.jobstores.mongodb import MongoDBJobStore
 from pymongo import MongoClient
 
-from config import MONGO_DB, MONGO_HOST, MONGO_PORT
+from config import MONGO_DB, MONGO_HOST, MONGO_PORT, FLASK_HOST, FLASK_PORT
 from constants.spider import CronEnabled
 from db.manager import db_manager
 
@@ -17,17 +17,24 @@ class Scheduler(object):
                                  client=mongo)
     }
 
-    scheduler = BlockingScheduler(jobstores=jobstores)
+    scheduler = BackgroundScheduler(jobstores=jobstores)
 
     def execute_spider(self, id: str):
-        r = requests.get('http://localhost:5000/api/spiders/%s/on_crawl' % id)
+        r = requests.get('http://%s:%s/api/spiders/%s/on_crawl' % (
+            FLASK_HOST,
+            FLASK_PORT,
+            id
+        ))
 
     def restart(self):
         self.scheduler.shutdown()
         self.scheduler.start()
 
     def update(self):
+        # remove all existing periodic jobs
         self.scheduler.remove_all_jobs()
+
+        # add new periodic jobs from database
         spiders = db_manager.list('spiders', {'cron_enabled': CronEnabled.ON})
         for spider in spiders:
             cron = spider.get('cron')
@@ -38,7 +45,7 @@ class Scheduler(object):
             day = cron_arr[3]
             month = cron_arr[4]
             day_of_week = cron_arr[5]
-            self.scheduler.add_job(func=self.execute_spider, trigger='cron', args=(str(spider['_id']),),
+            self.scheduler.add_job(func=self.execute_spider, trigger='cron', args=(str(spider['_id']),), jobstore='mongo',
                                    day_of_week=day_of_week, month=month, day=day, hour=hour, minute=minute,
                                    second=second)
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/api/request.js b/frontend/src/api/request.js
index a7570fea..297fb6bf 100644
--- a/frontend/src/api/request.js
+++ b/frontend/src/api/request.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import axios from 'axios'
 
-const baseUrl = 'http://localhost:5000/api'
+const baseUrl = 'http://localhost:8000/api'
+// const baseUrl = 'http://139.129.230.98:8000/api'
 
 const request = (method, path, params, data) => {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {