Handling Licensing in NodeJS

[Ram Mulage]

I am wondering how the software licensing/ product keys are handled in NodeJS world? In C++ world we only send the executable to the customer and that way it's tamper proof. The plan is to have some kind of licensing on the nodejs application and nodejs code is all plain text files and it's very easy to bypass the licensing. So how licensing is handled in NodeJS/ Javascript world? Any thoughts?

Many thanks,

-Ram

[Ryan Graham]

My advice is to not bother trying to make it super secure.

If you are shipping JavaScript then at some point there will likely be an option for the user to just comment out the line where you do the check. If you attempt to engage in some sort of arms race with node as the battlefield, you're going to be at a huge disadvantage and will spend way more trying to solve the problem than it is worth.

The route I went was to make a key generation and validation mechanism that is just complicated enough that it wouldn't be reasonable to say you "accidentally" circumvented the check. I spent a few hours on it and went back to working on more important things.

~Ryan

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