react-native-obfuscating-transformer Question: How obfuscated is react native code by default?

I read on stack overflow that some obfuscation is already achieved by default in React Native during bundling/minification phase but I have not confirmed it. Do you happen to have more information or any links about this? I'm curious about how much I get by default and how much I would get from a library such as this one. Thank you.

Mar 06 '19 07:03 jay-jlm

Last I checked react-native only minifies code and does some other trivial optimisations like constant folding. That does obfuscate a tiny bit, but nowhere near enough to deter reverse engineering.

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I read on stack overflow that some obfuscation is already achieved by default in React Native during bundling/minification phase but I have not confirmed it. Do you happen to have more information or any links about this? I'm curious about how much I get by default and how much I would get from a library such as this one. Thank you.

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Mar 06 '19 09:03 ds300

Thanks. A quick final question: can/should this lib be used also while sharing a debug view with a third party? Or is useful for release builds only? Maybe the dev build has some additional elements like source maps etc that cannot be obfuscated?

Mar 08 '19 00:03 jay-jlm