webOS is a registered trademark of LG Electronics Inc's. https://trademarks.justia.com/882/52/webos-88252320.html
The article's author has no claim to it and should remove the references to it. HN post title should be updated too.
This is not about the Palm / HP / LG "webOS", but about making a facsimile of the Windows XP shell in React.
This has nothing to do with palm's WebOS as I initially assumed