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To figure out what it's doing, obviously.

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Please STOP that.

I'll make you a promise: if your code never ends up on my machine, I will never try to reverse it.

Otherwise, all bets are off.

Why would I put it on YOUR machine? It's my code. Don't hack my servers, or all bets are off. /s

JS is often (but not always) transmitted from the server to execute on the client machine

You've never heard of NodeJS?

(but not always) <~ this includes nodejs

Friend, I'd love to come to an agreement that your code won't end up on my machine. I'm buying beers when we get together.

Don't request it then :p

If it's not part of any service that's marketed to me, I won't. However, if some vendor wants to run code on my machine, I _will_ be inspecting it.

No thanks. Anything you submit to run on my machine is fair play :-)

This code should never run on your machine. :P

Then why are you obfuscating it or even worried about people deobfuscating it? This thread is about Javascript.

Dude, I write financial applications in Node. Node IS javascript.

These applications run on the back end. Some of the API facing VMs have been attacked and so to be honest I've configured them so that if someone did get access to them, they wouldn't find much. Maybe just some API keys I can invalidate. Although I probably won't do it -- an obfuscator like this could be very handy here.

Did you give a try of Deno. This is a JavaScript runtime but it produce a single binary. This would make sense in your case because it can be harder to inspect it.

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