Taking the JavaScript trademark fight to the USPTO

November 26, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js Weekly

Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did you know Oracle formally owns the ‘JavaScript’ trademark? There have been a few efforts to change this over the years (most recently via this open letter) but Oracle isn’t listening. The Deno team has now formally filed a petition to cancel the trademark which Deno claims is fradulent because Oracle used screenshots of Node.js, a project Oracle doesn’t even own, as evidence of the trademark’s use.

Deno

A Complete Introduction to SQLite — Join Brian Holt for this video course and get to grips with the world’s most widely-deployed database. You’ll create Node.js app with SQLite — learning about queries, table management, optimization, and much more.

Frontend Masters

Vercel has added a Node.js 22 runtime for builds and functions this week too.

Exploring JavaScript SymbolsSymbols were a new ‘quirky little primitive’ (as Trevor puts it) that arrived with ES6 ten years ago, but they continue to be poorly understood. Trevor boils them down really well, including a little side quest into the likely-to-be-deprecated ‘species.’

Trevor I. Lasn

Avoiding False Positives in Node.js Tests — Specifically, avoiding loose/unstrict equality checks, overly general assertions, shallow equality, and misunderstandings over what assertions are doing.

Greg Gorlen

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