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by irrational 3111 days ago
No, but there are tons of prettifiers that can get minified/obfuscated JS back into a state that it can be read and reasoned about fairly easily. It's not like minifiying/obfuscating JS compiles it into byte code. It's still plain text.
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As we can use a decompiler with other languages.
Barely! It's not far from bytecode in some cases, especially with the advent of asm.js.
Do you or anyone else have any recommendations for a good tool to recover minified java script?
http://jsnice.org works well, though misses many oportunities of restoring variable names based on property names which cannot be minified.