Remove JS obfuscator that broke Mapbox GL map rendering

vite-plugin-obfuscator processes ALL output chunks including vendor
libraries, corrupting Mapbox GL's WebGL shader string literals via
base64 encoding and string splitting. This caused the map to render
as a blank screen in production.

Vite's built-in esbuild minification already mangles identifiers and
removes whitespace, providing sufficient code protection.

Adds regression tests to prevent re-introducing obfuscation plugins.

frontend/package.json

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
     "tw-animate-css": "^1.3.4",
     "typescript": "~5.8.3",
     "typescript-eslint": "^8.30.1",
-    "vite": "^6.3.5",
-    "vite-plugin-obfuscator": "^1.0.5"
+    "vite": "^6.3.5"
   }
 }

frontend/tsconfig.node.json

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
     // "noUncheckedSideEffectImports": true
   },
   "include": [
-    "vite.config.ts",
-    "vite-plugin-obfuscator.d.ts"
+    "vite.config.ts"
   ]
 }

frontend/vite-plugin-obfuscator.d.ts

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-declare module 'vite-plugin-obfuscator' {
-  import type { Plugin } from 'vite';
-  export function viteObfuscateFile(options?: Record<string, unknown>): Plugin;
-}

frontend/vite.config.ts

@@ -3,26 +3,12 @@ import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react-swc';
 import path from "path";
 import { env } from "process";
 import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
-import { viteObfuscateFile } from 'vite-plugin-obfuscator';
 
 // https://vite.dev/config/
 export default defineConfig({
   plugins: [
     react(),
     tailwindcss(),
-    viteObfuscateFile({
-      compact: true,
-      controlFlowFlattening: false,
-      deadCodeInjection: false,
-      debugProtection: false,
-      identifierNamesGenerator: 'hexadecimal',
-      renameGlobals: false,
-      stringArray: true,
-      stringArrayThreshold: 0.75,
-      stringArrayEncoding: ['base64'],
-      splitStrings: true,
-      splitStringsChunkLength: 10,
-    }),
   ],
   build: {
     outDir: "dist",

tests/unit/test_frontend_build_config.py

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+"""Regression tests for frontend build configuration.
+
+Prevents re-introducing JS obfuscation plugins that break vendor libraries
+(e.g., Mapbox GL WebGL shaders corrupted by string encoding/splitting).
+"""
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+FRONTEND_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] / "frontend"
+
+
+class TestViteConfig:
+    """Validate vite.config.ts doesn't contain dangerous build plugins."""
+
+    def test_no_obfuscator_plugin_in_vite_config(self) -> None:
+        """JS obfuscation breaks Mapbox GL's WebGL shaders and must not be used.
+
+        vite-plugin-obfuscator processes ALL output chunks (including vendor
+        libraries) and corrupts string literals used for WebGL shader source,
+        causing the map to render as a blank screen.
+        """
+        config = (FRONTEND_DIR / "vite.config.ts").read_text()
+        assert "obfuscat" not in config.lower(), (
+            "vite.config.ts must not use JS obfuscation plugins — "
+            "they corrupt Mapbox GL's WebGL shaders and break the map"
+        )
+
+    def test_no_obfuscator_in_package_json(self) -> None:
+        """Ensure obfuscator packages are not listed as dependencies."""
+        pkg = json.loads((FRONTEND_DIR / "package.json").read_text())
+        all_deps = {
+            **pkg.get("dependencies", {}),
+            **pkg.get("devDependencies", {}),
+        }
+        for dep_name in all_deps:
+            assert "obfuscat" not in dep_name.lower(), (
+                f"package.json must not include obfuscator packages (found {dep_name})"
+            )
+
+    def test_source_maps_disabled(self) -> None:
+        """Production builds must not emit source maps."""
+        config = (FRONTEND_DIR / "vite.config.ts").read_text()
+        assert "sourcemap: false" in config or "sourcemap:false" in config, (
+            "vite.config.ts must have sourcemap: false to prevent "
+            "shipping .map files in production"
+        )