Oracle dabbles in some JavaScript comedy

#722 — February 7, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Oracle Claims 'JavaScript' Isn't a Generic Term, and More — In this 'motion to dismiss' Oracle has responded to Deno’s attempt to prove Oracle shouldn't hold the JavaScript™ trademark with the argument that “relevant consumers do not perceive JAVASCRIPT as a generic term” (does Oracle only consider people who give it money to be relevant?) among other comedic insights. Ryan Dahl There Are a Lot of Ways to Break Up Long Tasks in JavaScript — Due to how browsers and the event loop work, letting a single task hog the main thread is a quick way to freeze up your site’s UI. Alex explains the problem and uses a simple example to walk through the pros and cons of different solutions from basic use of setTimeout() to requestAnimationFrame(), channel messaging, and Web Workers. Alex MacArthur Debugging Shopping Cart Issues Faster — Vue/Nuxt devs: Get full insight into your shopping cart errors! Capture Pinia State wherever errors occur. Learn how on the Sentry blog ». Sentry sponsor ▶ Angular: The Documentary — From the creators of the fantastic ▶️ Node.js and ▶️ Ruby on Rails documentaries comes this fresh story covering the ups and downs of the popular Angular (née AngularJS) framework starring a cast of veritable JavaScript luminaries. Honeypot IN BRIEF: Chrome is shipping a new moveBefore DOM method for moving elements around a DOM tree without resetting the element's state. React is already working on using it. Would you like to write PHP inside Vue or React components? You might if you're a Laravel user, and Aaron Francis shows off a way to do it. It's not open source yet, but his demo is pretty cool. Nx user? Nx has a whole new experience for Nx workspaces that's faster, more efficient, and solves a variety of issues with TypeScript editor support for large monorepos. Josh Goldberg explains the differences between ESLint and TypeScript, beyond the obvious. RELEASES: ES Module Shims 2.0 – Polyfills import maps and other ES Modules features on top of the baseline native ESM support in browsers. pnpm 10.2 – The alternative, efficient package manager. Turborepo 2.4

Feb 7, 2025 - 18:13

Oracle dabbles in some JavaScript comedy

#722 — February 7, 2025

JavaScript Weekly

Oracle Claims 'JavaScript' Isn't a Generic Term, and More — In this 'motion to dismiss' Oracle has responded to Deno’s attempt to prove Oracle shouldn't hold the JavaScript™ trademark with the argument that “relevant consumers do not perceive JAVASCRIPT as a generic term” (does Oracle only consider people who give it money to be relevant?) among other comedic insights.

Ryan Dahl

There Are a Lot of Ways to Break Up Long Tasks in JavaScript — Due to how browsers and the event loop work, letting a single task hog the main thread is a quick way to freeze up your site’s UI. Alex explains the problem and uses a simple example to walk through the pros and cons of different solutions from basic use of setTimeout() to requestAnimationFrame(), channel messaging, and Web Workers.

Alex MacArthur

Debugging Shopping Cart Issues Faster — Vue/Nuxt devs: Get full insight into your shopping cart errors! Capture Pinia State wherever errors occur. Learn how on the Sentry blog ».

Sentry sponsor

▶ Angular: The Documentary — From the creators of the fantastic ▶️ Node.js and ▶️ Ruby on Rails documentaries comes this fresh story covering the ups and downs of the popular Angular (née AngularJS) framework starring a cast of veritable JavaScript luminaries.

Honeypot

IN BRIEF:

Chrome is shipping a new moveBefore DOM method for moving elements around a DOM tree without resetting the element's state. React is already working on using it.
Would you like to write PHP inside Vue or React components? You might if you're a Laravel user, and Aaron Francis shows off a way to do it. It's not open source yet, but his demo is pretty cool.
Nx user? Nx has a whole new experience for Nx workspaces that's faster, more efficient, and solves a variety of issues with TypeScript editor support for large monorepos.
Josh Goldberg explains the differences between ESLint and TypeScript, beyond the obvious.

RELEASES:

ES Module Shims 2.0 – Polyfills import maps and other ES Modules features on top of the baseline native ESM support in browsers.
pnpm 10.2 – The alternative, efficient package manager.
Turborepo 2.4

Oracle dabbles in some JavaScript comedy

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