How can I protect the source of my HTML Metro app?

Question

I'm really interested in building applications in a Windows 8 Metro style. I would like to use HTML5 but I am very concerned about protecting my front end UI from deconstruction and ultimately being ripped off by others. Unfortunately, my service is all open source so I cannot really hide things there unless i implement some sort of middle man between the open source service and my front end HTML5 app.

So as the title says, how do I protect the source of my HTML Metro Application?

Answer 1

You have two options:

1. Run a JavaScript obfuscator over your code. This will make it much harder to figure out, but not impossible.
2. Implement the critical functions as C++ methods. You can call these using WinRT easily from JavaScript. This will make it much harder to understand what is going on.