jQuery's jquery-1.10.2.min.map is triggering a 404 (Not Found)

1082
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I'm seeing error messages about a file, min.map, being not found:

GET jQuery's jquery-1.10.2.min.map is triggering a 404 (Not Found)

Screenshot

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Where is this coming from?

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javascriptjquerygoogle-chrome-devtools
To fix my issue, I didn't follow the details of this answer. My site is only using the js file, not the map. I simply cleared my browser cache to resolve this, and restarted the browser. It started to occur when I started receiving a 500 Internal Server error on an ASP.NET Generic Handler (ExtDirectProxy.ashx) built and passed data to jquery to load the page. stackoverflow.com/questions/26135251/… – MacGyver
change the version you need and download it from below url and rename it code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.map – Iman
This slows down downloads, as browsers download this even if not needed. – Quentin 2
@Quentin2 as per html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps The source map file will only be downloaded if you have source maps enabled and your dev tools open. – Mathemats

11 Answers

1279
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If Chrome DevTools is reporting a 404 for a .map file (maybe jquery-1.10.2.min.map, jquery.min.map or jquery-2.0.3.min.map, but can happen with anything) first thing to know is this is only requested when using the DevTools. Your users will not be hitting this 404.

Now you can fix this or disable the sourcemap functionality.

Fix: get the files

Next, it's an easy fix. Head to http://jquery.com/download/ and click the Download the map file link for your version, and you'll want the uncompressed file downloaded as well.

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Having the map file in place allows you do debug your minified jQuery via the original sources, which will save a lot of time and frustration if you don't like dealing with variable names like a and c.

More about sourcemaps here: An Introduction to JavaScript Source Maps

Dodge: disable sourcemaps

Instead of getting the files, you can alternatively disable JavaScript source maps completely for now, in your settings. This is a fine choice if you never plan on debugging JavaScript on this page. Use the cog icon in the bottom right of the DevTools, to open settings, then: enter image description here

282
votes

You can remove the 404 by removing the line

//@ sourceMappingURL=jquery-1.10.2.min.map

from the top part of your jQuery file.

The top part of the jQuery file will look like this.

/*! jQuery v1.10.2 | (c) 2005, 2013 jQuery Foundation, Inc. | jquery.org/license
//@ sourceMappingURL=jquery-1.10.2.min.map
*/

Just change that to

/*! jQuery v1.10.2 | (c) 2005, 2013 jQuery Foundation, Inc. | jquery.org/license */

Purpose of a source map

Basically it's a way to map a combined/minified file back to an unbuilt state. When you build for production, along with minifying and combining your JavaScript files, you generate a source map which holds information about your original files. When you query a certain line and column number in your generated JavaScript you can do a lookup in the source map which returns the original location. Developer tools (currently WebKit nightly builds, Google Chrome, or Firefox 23+) can parse the source map automatically and make it appear as though you're running unminified and uncombined files. (Read more on this here)

46
votes

As it is announced in jQuery 1.11.0/2.1.0 Beta 2 Released the source map comment will be removed so the issue will not appear in newer versions of jQuery.

Here is the official announcement:

One of the changes we’ve made in this beta is to remove the sourcemap comment. Sourcemaps have proven to be a very problematic and puzzling thing to developers, generating scores of confused questions on forums like StackOverflow and causing users to think jQuery itself was broken.

Anyway, if you need to use a source map, it still be available:

We’ll still be generating and distributing sourcemaps, but you will need to add the appropriate sourcemap comment at the end of the minified file if the browser does not support manually associating map files (currently, none do). If you generate your own jQuery file using the custom build process, the sourcemap comment will be present in the minified file and the map is generated; you can either leave it in and use sourcemaps or edit it out and ignore the map file entirely.

Here you can find more details about the changes.

Here you can find confirmation that with the jQuery 1.11.0/2.1.0 Released the source-map comment in the minified file is removed.

42
votes

  1. Download the map file and the uncompressed version of jQuery.
    Put them with the minified version:

    JavaScript

  2. Include minified version into your HTML:

    HTML

  3. Check in Google Chrome:

    Google Chrome

  4. Read Introduction to JavaScript Source Maps

  5. Get familiar with Debugging JavaScript

17
votes

The new versions of jQuery require this file http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.map

The usability of this file is described here http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/

Update:

jQuery 1.11.0/2.1.0

// sourceMappingURL comment is not included in the compressed file.

11
votes

If you want to get source map file different version, you can use this link http://code.jquery.com/jquery-x.xx.x.min.map

Instead x.xx.x put your version number.

Note: Some links, which you get on this method, may be broken :)

10
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As I understand the browser, Chrome at least, it doesn't disable the source mapping by default. That means your application's users will trigger this source-mapping request by default.

You can remove the source mapping by deleting the //@ sourceMappingURL=jquery.min.map from your JavaScript file.

8
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After following the instructions in the other answers, I needed to strip the version from the map file for this to work for me.

Example: Rename

jquery-1.9.1.min.map

to

jquery.min.map

6
votes

I was presented with the same issue. The cause for me was Grunt concatenating my JavaScript file.

I was using a ;\n as a separator which caused the path to the source map to 404.

So dev tools was looking for jquery.min.map; instead of jquery.min.map.

I know that isn't the answer to the original question, but I am sure there are others out there with a similar Grunt configuration.

5
votes

jQuery 1.11.0/2.1.0 the // sourceMappingURL comment is not included in the compressed file.

2
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Assuming you've checked the file is actually present on the server, this could also be caused by your web server restricting which file types are served: