// these are unicode characters in four hex…If your dev team needs a comment explaining this I have some serious concerns about their qualifications.
Security through obscurity is not security. I see no reason why source maps should be unavailable.
depends.
if we’re talking about a personal website nobody will care. if you are a multibillion company and there’s the risk that literally anyone can create a 1:1 clone of your services… yeah that’s a bit of a trouble
Omitting source maps doesn’t prevent that.
Because source maps show how shitty your organization’s code and overall engineering practices are.
Ding ding ding
Open source code is usually quite nice and well done because money pressure is way less of an issue and everyone knows people will be looking at your code
If you look at the casual code that I have shamelessly made public on my GitLab, that might change your mind on that.
Isn’t that just effectively un-minified? It’s just the client side code in the first place?
Nah it’s more complete with comments and all. Here’s a link to a random svelte file:
https://github.com/rxliuli/apps.apple.com/blob/main/src/components/pages/SearchResultsPage.svelte
It’s already down.
This is why you self host a private Gitea instance and have it auto mirror all of your github repos.
I forked it, and my instance automatically grabbed me a forever copy.
Comments and full-length names make the source way more accessible.
