How can i obfuscate or make unreadable my JavaScript files?

Question

I have JavaScript scripts in my application containing JavaScript and jQuery functions. All user interaction with my application is dynamic and it\'s passing to the application

Answer 1

If someone really cares about your code he will take the workload of un-minifying (replacing random with useful variable/function names). Anything else such as "encrypting" or packing is just snake oil since it can be reverted extremely easy. So save yourself some work and rather spend it on making your application better.

So: The only thing you should do on a production system is minifying your JS code. This makes it smaller and thus faster to load - so it is an actually advantage. Besides that, it will make it less readable to people who are just curious for a quick look but don't want to spend time on it.

The facebook JS files for example are just minified by the way - most likely just for bandwidth/performance reasons.

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The easiest way to minify your JavaScript is using Google's web service for it: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home
Note that it has an 1MB limit so if your JS is that huge, you might need to download the Java-based minifier to run it locally.