Module parse failed: Unexpected character '�' (1:2)

[markfaine]

Node 9.6.0

I'm not really doing anything fancy. This is enough to trigger the error:

const geoip2 = require('geoip2')
geoip2.init();

ERROR in ./node_modules/geoip2/lib/node_mmdb.node 1:2
Module parse failed: Unexpected character '�' (1:2)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
(Source code omitted for this binary file)
@ ./node_modules/geoip2/node-geoip2.js 2:11-42
@ ./src/index.js

[knoxcard]

https://github.com/runk/node-maxmind/wiki/Most-Efficient-Integration-Methods