{"id":11954,"date":"2014-12-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3255030"},"modified":"2014-12-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T14:00:00","slug":"what-are-javascript-source-maps-by-logentries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-are-javascript-source-maps-by-logentries\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are JavaScript Source Maps? By @Logentries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s generally a good practice to minify and combine your assets (JS &#038; CSS) when deploying to production. This process reduces the size of your assets and dramatically improves your website&#8217;s load time.<br \/>\nSource maps create a map from these compressed asset files back to the source files.<br \/>\nThis map allows you to debug and view the source code of your compressed assets, as if you were actually working with the originals.<br \/>\nTake a look at jQuery minified &#038; combined code that was generated from the original. The code practically unreadable and would be difficult to debug.<br \/>\nBut, as we all know, no matter how thoroughly you test, sometimes bugs fall will through the cracks. This is why it&#8217;s useful to debug Javascript code in production, and that&#8217;s when source maps come in handy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3255030\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s generally a good practice to minify and combine your assets (JS &amp; CSS) when deploying to production. This process reduces the size of your assets and dramatically improves your website&#8217;s load time.<br \/>\nSource maps create a map from these compressed asset files back to the source files.<br \/>\nThis map allows you to debug and view the source code of your compressed assets, as if you were actually working with the originals.<br \/>\nTake a look at jQuery minified &amp; combined code that was generated from the original. The code practically unreadable and would be difficult to debug.<br \/>\nBut, as we all know, no matter how thoroughly you test, sometimes bugs fall will through the cracks. This is why it&#8217;s useful to debug Javascript code in production, and that&#8217;s when source maps come in handy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3255030\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}