JavaScript Obfuscator VS Terser

I don't need/use IDA, Nemlei just used https://obfuscator.io/, which just obfuscates the crap out of the code using various known methods (which I won't go into detail, it's public knowledge) and an un-obfuscation was cooked up by others. The one fucked-up thing the website does is randomizing function names, it just changes every variable/function name. We can't "un-obfuscate" those, so it's up to our brains to... Source: 5 months ago

It's to purposefully makes your code harder to read so it prevents people from stealing your work. Here's a tool that does it: https://obfuscator.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

I just tested it on a little snippet of my code obfuscated with https://obfuscator.io/ and it worked seemingly perfectly. My original code:

  function resizeImage(img) {.

- Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Https://obfuscator.io/ produces a similar result, perhaps that's all they used. Source: over 1 year ago

The obfuscation looks very similar to what you might get from https://obfuscator.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

Example: You've got a main.js file that's as long as a Tolstoy novel. Fix: Use tools like UglifyJS or Terser to minify your code. They'll squeeze out all the unnecessary bits and give you a sleeker, faster-loading file. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

They can do it, it is just turned off by default and require more advanced configuration. https://github.com/terser/terser#cli-mangling-property-names.... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Minifying is a common practice for optimizing production code. (for example, using Terser to minify and mangle JavaScript). - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

Terser is JavaScript compressor that can minified specific method names. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Every release build of React Native uses terser to reduce the size of your JavaScript. And it operation can be omitted for Staging/Beta builds. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago