Usually to edit crontab for a user, you login as that user and then run:

This usually opens up a text editor which then lets you edit the crontab. Once you are done, you save and quit, and this magically updates your crontab.

Today I was writing a script that needed to update crontab without any user interaction. After doing some digging, I found this neat way of updating my crontab;

The above example is straight out of my shell script which renews my letsencrypt certificate and then restarts the nginx server.