I’m trying to use the Level database abstraction and the IndexedDB-based Level-down for the browser variant of my app.
It converts everything in a byte array, as stated in the documentation:

Like other implementations of abstract-level, browser-level has first-class support of binary keys and values, using either Uint8Array or Buffer. In order to sort string and binary keys the same way as other databases, browser-level internally converts data to a Uint8Array before passing them to IndexedDB. If you have no need to work with Buffer keys or values, you can choose to omit the buffer shim from a JavaScript bundle (through configuration of Webpack, Browserify or other bundlers).

I’m having hard time debugging my app as I can’t browse the database when everything is binary.

How do I tell Webpack 5.91.0 to exclude the “buffer shim” so that the browser-lever doesn’t make the unneeded conversion as it promises in the docs?

This is my webpack config:

import path from 'path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';

const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));


export default {
  entry: './src/la.js',
  output: {
    filename: 'laio.js',
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
    library: "la"
  }
};

The internet search makes me think everybody understands how to do it in Webpack 5, but I’m missing something.