Allow source code to run, but not show it

[CharlieJV]

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1462

This thread has me asking entirely out of ignorance: is there a way in "BAM" or "QBJS" to provide source code and run it, without allowing a different user to see the source code, or allowing that user to see a small portion of it?

For QBJS there are a few ways to do this.  You can use the Share feature to create a link to your program.  The Auto or Play option will not show the source code.

Either of these options will also enable an export feature, which will allow you to download a “compiled” version of your program, which you can share on your website or upload to a sharing site like itch.io.

If I've got it right, please correct me if I misunderstood:

With QBJS, the result is the BASIC code transpiled to javascript.

The BASIC code, which would be really easy to read, no longer exists.  What we have is javascript that is minimised. (Well, not really minimised, but still fairly cryptic.)

Hard as heck to read, but if you know how to read javascript, css, and html, then you can see exactly what the program is doing, even reverse engineer the BASIC program.  That would be a huge pain in the caboose, but it is just to point out what I think is accurate (based on my understanding): there is no hiding the original code for a client-side web application.  It can only be obfuscated.

But as far as obfuscating the original BASIC code goes, QBJS converting it to javascript and minimising that javascript is really good standard web obfuscation.  BASIC Anywhere Machine  makes no attempt at all to obfuscate anything.

Here's a QBJS "Hello World" program (the BASIC source below that).  Not much fun to read, so nicely obfuscated:

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async function __qbjs_run() {
QB.start(); QB.setTypeMap({ GXPOSITION:[{ name: 'x', type: 'LONG' }, { name: 'y', type: 'LONG' }], GXDEVICEINPUT:[{ name: 'deviceId', type: 'INTEGER' }, { name: 'deviceType', type: 'INTEGER' }, { name: 'inputType', type: 'INTEGER' }, { name: 'inputId', type: 'INTEGER' }, { name: 'inputValue', type: 'INTEGER' }], FETCHRESPONSE:[{ name: 'ok', type: 'INTEGER' }, { name: 'status', type: 'INTEGER' }, { name: 'statusText', type: 'STRING' }, { name: 'text', type: 'STRING' }]});
    await GX.registerGameEvents(function(e){});
    QB.sub_Screen(0);

  var ___v5795186 = 0; for ( i =  1 ;  i  <=  10;  i = i  + 1) { if (QB.halted()) { return; } ___v5795186++;  if (___v5795186 % 100 == 0) { await QB.autoLimit(); }
      await QB.sub_Print(["hello world"]);
  }
QB.end();


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The QBJS BASIC code that generated the javascript above:

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for i = 1 to 10
print "hello world"
next i