no it doesn’t, and I am very aware that if anything runs on someone’s computer then it can get replicated. but it gets slightly harder, also to reverse-engineer it or find potential fallacies. as well as source maps on prod are just a waste of bandwidth

depends.

if we’re talking about a personal website nobody will care. if you are a multibillion company and there’s the risk that literally anyone can create a 1:1 clone of your services… yeah that’s a bit of a trouble

As most of our tech.

Being someone that yield to my tech stuff as long as possible I really love to live in a world where a company is forced to opensource everything related to a specific product if they opt to stop maintaining it.