Re:MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's de...
by Karellen on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:21PM
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TIL about source code maps.
...and how to disable them from auto-loading.
I mean, okay, I can see how they definitely have a use. But to try and auto-fetch js and css maps just because I want to have a look at the DOM?
Why not wait until I actually try looking at js/css? Or even until I ask to see the source map?
Prefetching never feels right to me. Even though I know GET requests are supposed to be side-effect free and idempotent (and if they're not, that's a choice by the server devs and they'd better have covered all the edge cases where clients correctly act as if they are...), it has the architectural equivalent of a "code smell" to my nose.
...and how to disable them from auto-loading.
I mean, okay, I can see how they definitely have a use. But to try and auto-fetch js and css maps just because I want to have a look at the DOM?
Why not wait until I actually try looking at js/css? Or even until I ask to see the source map?
Prefetching never feels right to me. Even though I know GET requests are supposed to be side-effect free and idempotent (and if they're not, that's a choice by the server devs and they'd better have covered all the edge cases where clients correctly act as if they are...), it has the architectural equivalent of a "code smell" to my nose.