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Obfuscating what your product does is a terrible idea. Don't do this.



I agree if you need to hide what value it really bring people will stop using it as soon as they understand.


Unfortunately this is exactly what he recommends in his FAQ:

"Besides, we strongly recommend to let our JavaScript file blend in with the rest of your application's JavaScript. Webpack, compress and uglify the best you can, to make the code responsible for validation as difficult as possible to find and break."


Wasn't talking about code obfuscation :)




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