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Apple forgot to disable production source maps on the App Store web app (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 day ago by mudkip@lemdro.id to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just to save on wasted bandwidth for the client (and your server) is why I would disable them.

[–] brian@programming.dev 37 points 23 hours ago

they're different files generally, the only client that will automatically request them is a debugger.

you turn them off because you don't want to expose your full source code. if you would be ok making your webpage git repo public then making sourcemaps available is fine.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 6 points 5 hours ago

I work for a large software corp and we generally keep them in prod because it makes debugging prod issues much easier. The browser only downloads them when the dev tools are open.