[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #6723: Require source and map files for JS

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#6723: Require source and map files for JS
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 Reporter:  kkmuffme          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  low               |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by kkmuffme):

 If the developer knows how to minify their JS, they will certainly know
 how to include the .map in their build process (if your plugin only
 contains unminified JS, you don't need a map anyway)

 Atm it's even missing in WP core in a few cases, but there's a discussion
 to fix this with the next release.

 >Do you have any suggestions on how best to handle this for existing
 themes and plugins (as there are thousands)?

 I am not too familiar with the plugin directory, but I assume this
 shouldn't be too hard to do as a first step: automatically find all
 plugins that contain a .min.js but no .map and .js with same name, send
 message/email to the plugin author that this will be required going
 forward (or: just give an error when a new plugin version is added, that
 is missing either file?)

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 For future automation of this, in addition to the above check, one could
 simply remove all code comments from the JS file and if the remaining code
 of the file is less than e.g. 5 lines, one can be pretty certain that this
 is minified JS (even when it doesn't have a .min.js in name), to avoid
 things being missed (e.g. when the .js is generated from
 .coffee/.ts/whatever)

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