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Apple Disables Sourcemaps After Web App Store Front-End Code Posted to GitHub

The exposure followed the launch of a redesigned browser App Store, with access limited to client-side files.

Apple's new app web store is nowhere near as useful as Steam. Yet.
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Overview

  • Apple’s revamped web App Store introduced new platform, category, and search pages before the code exposure was noticed.
  • Sourcemaps were mistakenly left enabled in production, allowing GitHub user rxliuli to extract the complete frontend using a Chrome extension.
  • The archived repository includes Svelte and TypeScript source, UI components, state logic, API integrations, and routing configuration.
  • Reporters observed that Apple’s developers have now disabled sourcemaps on the live site.
  • The GitHub archive remained accessible at the time of reporting, with coverage noting minimal immediate security or privacy risk and no public comment from Apple.