From 8f204a0514bbaf2a0ad276d14dc0c9b870a025eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alexander-akait <sheo13666q@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:03:42 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] perf: cache fs calls for modern API

---
 src/utils.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/utils.js b/src/utils.js
index 8650e45f..4c12f532 100644
--- a/src/utils.js
+++ b/src/utils.js
@@ -691,13 +691,13 @@ function getModernWebpackImporter(loaderContext, implementation, loadPaths) {
           // TODO simplify in the next major release and pass URL
           const canonicalPath = url.fileURLToPath(canonicalUrl);
 
-          loaderContext.fs.readFile(canonicalPath, "utf8", (err, content) => {
+          loaderContext.fs.readFile(canonicalPath, (err, content) => {
             if (err) {
               reject(err);
               return;
             }
 
-            resolve(content);
+            resolve(content.toString("utf8"));
           });
         });