I work for a large software corp and we generally keep them in prod because it makes debugging prod issues much easier. The browser only downloads them when the dev tools are open.
they’re different files generally, the only client that will automatically request them is a debugger.
you turn them off because you don’t want to expose your full source code. if you would be ok making your webpage git repo public then making sourcemaps available is fine.
You’re supposed to disable source maps in prod?
Asking for a friend
if you think your source code is that precious and unique and special, go ahead and worry about it haha
Just to save on wasted bandwidth for the client (and your server) is why I would disable them.
I work for a large software corp and we generally keep them in prod because it makes debugging prod issues much easier. The browser only downloads them when the dev tools are open.
they’re different files generally, the only client that will automatically request them is a debugger.
you turn them off because you don’t want to expose your full source code. if you would be ok making your webpage git repo public then making sourcemaps available is fine.