Why do we not just use Minified JS?

Question

I see this word alot "minified" and i never seem to pick a script (ie. from jQuery plugins) that is "minified" but i suppose i should. If i'm right Minified means to remove all unecessary stuff from source code without changing its functionality, so why dont we just have minified source and why bother with the full blown version? Why give people the option?

YOLO

Answer 1

When you're debugging, it's a lot easier to have the full source code. It's pretty difficult to debug when it says everything is on line 1 (since everything is usually condensed to just one long line), and an unreadable line 1 for that matter.

I test using the full blown version, and then I minify everything for deployment.

Answer 2

the minified version is difficult to understand and debug