I ran into this error in a Next.js application:
Module not found: Can’t resolve ‘encoding’ in …/node_modules/node-fetch/lib’
To fix this, I ran npm install encoding and the error was gone!
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I ran into this error in a Next.js application:
Module not found: Can’t resolve ‘encoding’ in …/node_modules/node-fetch/lib’
To fix this, I ran npm install encoding and the error was gone!
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