[chrisohara]

have you ever looked at code obfuscated by proprietary tools? By your logic it's easy to reverse-engineer and copy Gmail - good luck with that

[endtime]

Are you saying you don't think Gmail has a backend...?

[chrisohara]

Of course it has a backend, but so do the Firebase apps that this entire thread is talking about. Referring to a JS app as "client-side" doesn't imply that there's no backend logic.

My point is that you can't just de-obfuscate a primarily client-side JS app and replace the Firebase (or whatever) endpoints. Proprietary obfuscation is more than just variable name munging and minification..

[endtime]

The Gmail backend isn't available in the same way as the Firebase backend.