Debugging Next.js: Fix “Module not found: Can't resolve encoding” in Next.js

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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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