@thheller I have a bit of weird one for you, any idea why — when loaded via shadow.resource causes Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0x97 ? Stack Overflow is points to my files not being UTF-8 but I have tried to confirm that they are as best as I can.

is the file you are loading as a resource proper utf-8? it often is some kind of utf16 or so

shadow-cljs does not perform any kind of conversion so it is likely that your file contains the invalid byte

they are often invisible in editors so easy to miss

I just want to say, shadow-cljs is awesome! I just set up hot reloading in like 5 minutes. Normally when spinning up a new JS project with Webpack, I plan on wasting an hour or two at least to get everything configured. Great job on the usability front 🍻