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Hello,
Last year I worked on a real-time application with Laravel / VueJS / Docker and some additionnal packages like MariaDB, RabbitMQ, websockets, supervisor, ...
The application is distributed via a Docker package.
My client wants to obfuscate the code.
Has anybody already obfuscated a real-time Laravel / VueJS application's code ?
Here are my first researches :
it's possible to obfuscate with free or paid packages, but for a relevant protection against reverse engineering, it's recommended to use a paid one
code obfuscation can generate bugs
with code obfuscation, the application will be less performant
to keep a good performance, I can use Octane
Do you have any suggestions for me ?
Thanks for your answer ;).
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It's already protected if the repo is private. Besides any modern app can be duplicated anyway by a knowledgeable developer.
Take this forum, can you see all the code used, no. Not counting the fact he shares how it's done. But if it was a private repo you couldn't.
I would suggest have a private repo for the client.
The application is distributed via a Docker package, so anybody having the package could know the code. I think that it's the reason why the client wants to obfuscate the code.
@vincent15000 You already asked this question here, where I’ve also responded.
Oh ... that's true, and I really didn't remember that I had already posted quite the same. Sorry ...
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