Note

This is a package modified from confusion

About

Sometimes, we want to obfuscate our source code to against theft or abuse.

Confusion makes it harder to decipher your code by replacing string literals and property accesses with lookups into a string map.

Gulp-str2hex inherit the basic functionality of Confusion, integrate with gulp, and also bring some enhancement.

• Convert strings and object property names to Hex string like '\x00' (None ASCII char to '\u0000' unicode)
• Compress the code, remove comments, new lines, spaces()

Install

use npm:

npm install gulp-str2hex --save

Example

This code snippet:

var cnStr = "中文测试";
var enStr = 'This is a sentence in English';
 
String.prototype.myLog = function () {
    console.log('>> ' + str + ' <<');
};

will be converted to

var cnStr = '\u4e2d\u6587\u6d4b\u8bd5';
var enStr = '\x54\x68\x69\x73\x20\x69\x73\x20\x61\x20\x73\x65\x6e\x74\x65\x6e\x63\x65\x20\x69\x6e\x20\x45\x6e\x67\x6c\x69\x73\x68';
String[['\x70\x72\x6f\x74\x6f\x74\x79\x70\x65']][['\x6d\x79\x4c\x6f\x67']] = function () {
    console[['\x6c\x6f\x67']]('\x3e\x3e\x20' + str + '\x20\x3c\x3c');
};

or use string map

var _x28494 = [
    '\u4e2d\u6587\u6d4b\u8bd5',
    '\x54\x68\x69\x73\x20\x69\x73\x20\x61\x20\x73\x65\x6e\x74\x65\x6e\x63\x65\x20\x69\x6e\x20\x45\x6e\x67\x6c\x69\x73\x68',
    '\x6d\x79\x4c\x6f\x67',
    '\x70\x72\x6f\x74\x6f\x74\x79\x70\x65',
    '\x6c\x6f\x67',
    '\x3e\x3e\x20',
    '\x20\x3c\x3c'
];
var cnStr = _x28494[0];
var enStr = _x28494[1];
String[_x28494[3]][_x28494[2]] = function () {
    console[_x28494[4]](_x28494[5] + str + _x28494[6]);
};

or bring all the string through call parameter of IIFE:

(function (_x16425) {
    'use strict';
    var cnStr = _x16425[0];
    var enStr = _x16425[1];
    String[_x16425[3]][_x16425[2]] = function () {
        console[_x16425[4]](_x16425[5] + str + _x16425[6]);
    };
}.call(this, [
    '\u4e2d\u6587\u6d4b\u8bd5',
    '\x54\x68\x69\x73\x20\x69\x73\x20\x61\x20\x73\x65\x6e\x74\x65\x6e\x63\x65\x20\x69\x6e\x20\x45\x6e\x67\x6c\x69\x73\x68',
    '\x6d\x79\x4c\x6f\x67',
    '\x70\x72\x6f\x74\x6f\x74\x79\x70\x65',
    '\x6c\x6f\x67',
    '\x3e\x3e\x20',
    '\x20\x3c\x3c'
]));

you can also choose only hex some none ASCII chars like Chinese(like what some Chinese to unicode packages to do)

(function (_x53816) {
    'use strict';
    var cnStr = _x53816[0];
    var enStr = _x53816[1];
    String[_x53816[3]][_x53816[2]] = function () {
        console[_x53816[4]](_x53816[5] + str + _x53816[6]);
    };
}.call(this, [
    '\u4e2d\u6587\u6d4b\u8bd5',
    'This is a sentence in English',
    'myLog',
    'prototype',
    'log',
    '>> ',
    ' <<'
]));

and compress the code(the uglify-js package will restore what we have converted, so we cannot use it after our working pipe):

(function(_x37168){'use strict';var cnStr=_x37168[0];var enStr=_x37168[1];String[_x37168[3]][_x37168[2]]=function(){console[_x37168[4]](_x37168[5]+str+_x37168[6]);};}.call(this,['\u4e2d\u6587\u6d4b\u8bd5','This is a sentence in English','myLog','prototype','log','>> ',' <<']));

Usage

first, import the package

var str2hex = require('gulp-str2hex');

use with gulp

gulp.src(['./src/js/*.js'])
    .pipe(webpack(require('./webpack.config.js')))
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(str2hex())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./assets/js')) 

add some options

gulp.src(['./src/js/*.js'])
    .pipe(webpack(require('./webpack.config.js')))
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(str2hex({
        hexall: false,
        placeholdMode: 2,
        compress: true
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./assets/js')) 

options

• hexall

  whether hex all strings or not, default: false

  available values: true or false

• placeholdMode

  how to map the strings, default: 0

  available values:

  0 - keep string in their positions,
  1(alias `prependMap`) - use a array includes all the strings, and expose the array as a variable prepend the code;
  2(alias `wrapWithIife`) - use a array includes all the strings, and use Iife to wrap the array as a parameter of the function;
  

• compress

  compress the code, remove new lines, comments and spaces, instead of uglify-js, default true

  available values: true or false

  note: if you use uglify-js, must make the pipe before our package pipe, or the hex string will be restored.