iHeartRadio web has exposed all its source code
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·November 21, 2025TheAceOfHearts
Honestly, I think including source maps for your frontend code should be the standard. Maybe web apps will get better if people can actually start studying existing frontend sourcemaps to learn good patterns which are being used in production by companies with lots of experienced engineers. Tons of people love to complaint about terrible web apps, but finding high quality web app examples to study and learn from is actually really difficult! Let's not pretend that the trivial todo-apps are where you're gonna go to learn anything about how a real-world app is organized.
I think this title is misleading, it makes it seem like more than just the unobfuscated code has been exposed.
cxr
Yes, the repo creator's tone is obnoxious.
> Remember: Always disable sourcemaps in production!
Or don't. One can have serious doubts that the person who wrote this in the README themselves understands (and can articulate the reasons) why they have this position.
There is a non-zero possibility that this wasn't even an accident.
In any case, GitHub isn't an unredactable, append-only ledger. "Archiving" this on a site that is no less subject to DMCA takedowns than any other site but that differs from other sites in having exceptionally fast response times to turnarounds was not an especially well-informed or thoughtful move.
isodev
It’s not exposed, it’s how web stuff works
lbourdages
Well, to play devil's advocate, typically only the minified version is exposed.
However I agree that in the end outside of making it more readable, it's not making a huge difference.
null
forks
> Remember: Always disable sourcemaps in production!
I wish I could downvote this comment from the README.
Minification to reduce bandwidth is noble. But to obfuscate? Why?
ceejayoz
Wait until you find out about "View source".
This is front-end code, that gets deliberately sent to the browser. With enough work, someone can deobfuscate such code manually.
shortrounddev2
People have gone to jail for less than this lol
graemep
A fairly minor breach of copyright?
John-Tony12
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Immediately had to think about the Apple Web Store which seemed to have the same "issue" two weeks ago[0]
I guess the same thing[1] applies here.
> This is not "exposing" their source code. While yes, it may not be minified and it's slightly more human readable, it's not exposing any additional logic. Remember, obfuscation is not security.
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804664
[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1onnzlj/comment/nmy...