Best "short-term" hack still in prod?

Week 134 Group Rant

thatsnotnice

5y

Problem:
some folks left the angular codebase full of ridicolous console.logs, client was upset as he noticed it during UAT

Solution:
1. add extra script in main template page
window.console.log = function(){};
2. translate it into JSFuck
3. if they ask, pretend it's a super-secret encryption algorithm to improve security

joke/meme

jsfuck

console.log

wk134

js

Ranter

Comments

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nitwhiz

12162

5y

Heck?
1

incognito

3458

5y

But why jsfuck, isn't that just making life more complicated for the next Dev ?
2

telephantasm

2457

5y

Overriding built-in functions? Yikes! Better global replace "console.log(" with "//console.log(" ?
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thatsnotnice

662

5y

I joined the proj weeks before prod,codebase was a mess, no unit tests, and spies on integration tests on console.log calls... plus client pissed off because of those freaking logs. override the function was the quickest fix (and probably the dirtiest) that came to my mind on two legs
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thatsnotnice

662

5y

@incognito jsfuck was only to buy time with the client, as he was checking the bundle and the source code. even he's not into coding, he knows enough to be annoying (given that was also right...)
Codebase needs to be fixed, the jsfuck thing is only a monkey patch that we didn't want to show
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Snob

2105

5y

Just webdev things

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