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Support cache invalidation for ongoing TV series

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mongodb, nodejs, typescript
Domain
backend, databases

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the cache and TV-series metadata handling, then determine when ongoing-series data should be invalidated; done means numberOfEpisodes, numberOfSeasons, lastAirDate, and status no longer remain outdated.

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Description

bug

For ongoing TV series, some of our cached data (like numberOfEpisodes, numberOfSeasons, lastAirDate, status) will be out of date, so we should handle that

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
12
Forks
3
Avg merge
13d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
5

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