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It’s called minification, not obfuscation. The goal is in the name.

Of course it does also obfuscate to a point where large chunks of code are not easily reusable. You can still easily understand small snippets if you try.




I know what it’s called, but thanks for pointing it out.

I certainly found it very obscure the one time I had to investigate a minified app, that’s why I asked.




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