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I don't think there's much point in obfuscation. If it's a large amount of code then minification and concatenation helps with download size, but for small file
by perilunar 9mo ago
I don't think there's much point in obfuscation. If it's a large amount of code then minification and concatenation helps with download size, but for small files I don't bother.
- nikitaeverywher 9mo agoThanks for the feedback. Minification and obfuscation solve different problems. Minification is about download size (and somewhat parse/exec speed). Obfuscation is about making code harder to reverse-engineer, patch or copy. The question is: do you have anything worth protecting? For a simple marketing website, probably not. But if you're shipping: - A browser game (think of copycats & anti-cheat front end code) - Feature flags that reveal your roadmap - Pricing/discount logic in product companies competitors could copy - Client-side validation algorithms (easily explained by LLMs) - Proprietary algorithms (trading, scoring, matching) ...then "anyone can read your source" becomes a concern. Does any of that apply to what you build?