It’s an internal inside of React.
Crazy what other commenters are coming up with.
So using react will get you fired? I knew it!
What an absolutely shitty peppering string.
The code file has 32.171 lines, at least after beautifing it. 1MB fucking js code.
Don’t worry, this file is likely the output of a bundler.
What am I looking at here?
There’s a string stating that the code should not be passed or the employee will be fired. I’d assume this was a test to see if an employee meant to be doing code review was actually doing them. Spoiler, they were not, as OP said they found this in production code.
I’d go a step further and I suspect it’s a peppering string (i.e. fixed string you add to hashes to defeat rainbow tables). I’d really hope it isn’t as you mentioned because gosh that sounds like a toxic workplace if someone is just leaving landmines around purely to get someone fired.
More like, you know damn well that Jim keeps passing code reviews without reading a line in them, he’s been talked to, still does it, and you need something actionable to prove it so that you can get someone’s ass in his chair who does their job.
From the stories I’ve heard from corporate software employees, this does sound like exactly the kind of thing you gotta do to show some manager the guy is buddy-buddy with that they’re actually not doing their job. And even then they didn’t listen.
Would that imply that all quality control is evil?
No, I don’t think so - it’s just a dick move to go out of your way to sabotage someone. If they’re fucking up just visit their existing mistakes - don’t waste time contriving new ones.
So when TSA sends fake guns and bombs through luggage, it’s not qa, it’s just a dick move to sabotage them?
I bet the guy who said “looks good to me” still has a job too.
You should really be using a pre commit hook to catch secrets. Admittedly it may not have caught this, but manual review is (clearly) not always sufficient.
it’s part of react proptypes: https://github.com/facebook/prop-types/blob/4de0644a10a554d0a556daa39f029369bc007ea5/lib/ReactPropTypesSecret.js#L10
