--- title: "The Web Streams API comes to Node" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 397 published_at: "2021-07-15" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/397" --- Plus a TypeScript Express.js app generator, a major new MongoDB driver, and a fuzzy string matching library. | #​397 — July 15, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/397) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/uxiedwcjmkeaswj3trvm.jpg)](https://github.com/ljlm0402/typescript-express-starter) [A TypeScript Express Starter App](https://github.com/ljlm0402/typescript-express-starter) — A boilerplate app generator for getting a RESTful API up and running quickly. 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