This week, I was tasked with enhancing the security of our Create React App by employing obfuscation and minification techniques.
Obfuscation, as ...
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This is really interesting but it's a whole lot of effort when obfuscation is the lowest form of security. Any decent hacker who wants to delve into your source code would not be put off by minified code - a mild inconvenience at best.
It's much safer and easier to just ensure your UI code doesn't contain sensitive information in the first place.
There are actually two points in this post, one about the obfuscation/minification. I agree that this part is a minor inconvenience.
The second part (splitting the build code into chunks) i find the most important/interesting in the context of a single page application, since, before this implementation, it was possible to access the source code of authenticated routes from the main.*.js
another BANGER