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Javascript variable names are not minified

Open DonaldDuck313 opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

If I start with this code for example:

function foo(bar){
    return bar + 1;
}

This code gets minified to:

function foo(bar){return bar+1}

I would expect it to get minified to something like:

function foo(a){return a+1}

DonaldDuck313 avatar Feb 05 '20 11:02 DonaldDuck313

Minification is not obfuscation. Changing variable names is a more complicated process and can easily break the code.

enricodias avatar Apr 20 '20 14:04 enricodias