Friends of mine have seen their non-trivial code lifted right off their websites and sold by people on Fiverr as if they had written it. I would imagine a lot of folks on Fiverr do just this: Scour the web for the solution they are being paid to create and simply copy-and-paste it to their unsuspecting clients.
Say you are building a site that will make use of very heavy JS code, to the point that the code is critical to your business and you do not want it copied or stolen. How do you protect it? Can you protect it?
I can't see much past obfuscation through minification. How effective are these techniques?
One thought is to use AJAX wherever possible in order to have that code live server side. This, of course, would result in greater server load.
Say you are building a site that will make use of very heavy JS code, to the point that the code is critical to your business and you do not want it copied or stolen. How do you protect it? Can you protect it?
I can't see much past obfuscation through minification. How effective are these techniques?
One thought is to use AJAX wherever possible in order to have that code live server side. This, of course, would result in greater server load.