Chrome Extension UTF-8 encoding error

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Avie Seegobin

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Feb 25, 2020, 7:00:44 PM2/25/20

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Hi,

I'm trying to add Protobuf to my Chrome Extension project and I get an error that the compiled JS file is not UTF-8 encoded.

Could not load file 'dist/build.js' for content script. It isn't UTF-8 encoded.

I used npm to install google-protobuf v3.11.4.

Mac OS 10.14.6

Node v10.8.0

Npm v6.2.0

I can confirm this is an error with google-protobuf because the compiled JS file loads correctly in the Chrome Extension when I don't have the require statement:

require('google-protobuf')

Has anyone seen this before/know a way to fix this? I can't seem to find exactly what in the google-protobuf package could be broken.