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Title: Any way to hide proprietary javascript?
Post by: Mike Grigsby on August 28, 2009, 09:12:31 PM

I've got a doozy of a javascript that was a bear to write. Is there any way to include this into a NTWS app, maybe calling it from a database or something? I can't get my head around this.

Title: Re: Any way to hide proprietary javascript?
Post by: Bruce on August 31, 2009, 06:19:21 AM

there are 2 questions here;

a) is there any way to hide the javascript from the end user. The short answer is no. You can run it through a minimizer (jsmin etc) which will make it harder to read (and smaller) but the end user can run it though a reverse process if they want to. There's no such thing as "compiled" javascript, - it has to be source code for the browser - that's what javascript it.

b) on the server side it doesn't have to be in the web\scripts folder. you could store it in a database if you like. (There's an example, um, #40 I think that shows serving files from a database.)

Cheers
Bruce