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Does it make sense to obsfucate Javascript? The only clear benefits I can see are to hide code (albeit non-proprietary in nature since it’s client-side) from prying eyes and as a minimizer since often Javascript obsfucators do minimization as well.
I do not think that JavaScript obfuscation is worth the effort for concealment purposes in most general scenarios. However, minification is worth-it, for many reasons, which as you mentioned, has the minor side-effect of obfuscating code as well.