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Apple forgot to disable production source maps on the App Store web app (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You’re supposed to disable source maps in prod?

Asking for a friend

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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