You're not wrong, but if your code breaks when you apply the simplest refactorings you probably aren't thinking about minifying your code. And while Javascript

You're not wrong, but if your code breaks when you apply the simplest refactorings you probably aren't thinking about minifying your code. And while Javascript does let you put yourself in that position, I've never seen it in production code. Angularjs dependencies are a notable exception, and have a backup mechanism.