Is using an obfuscator enough to secure my JavaScript code?

Question

I\'m working on building a development tool that is written in JavaScript.

This will not be an open source project and will be sold (hopefully) as a commercial produ

Answer 1

I deeply disagree with most answers above.

It's true that every software can be stolen despite of obfuscation but, at least, it makes harder to extract and reuse individual parts of the software and that is the point.

Maybe it's cheaper and less risky to use an obfuscation than leaving the code open and fighting at court after somebody stole the best parts of our software and made dangerous concurrency.

Unobfuscated code whispers:

• Come on, analyze me, reuse me. Maybe you could make a better software using me.

Obfuscated code says:

• Go away dude. It's cheaper to use your own ideas than trying to crack me.