help with excluding a 10mb file from obfuscation

[kronikpillow]

hi guys, i'v been having trouble building my chrome extension ever since i included a 10mb file that contains the data about all event buildings in a video game ... before i was able to dynamically load it, but now dynamic loading doesn't work for me as the game itself changed something, so as a temporary fix i downloaded the file and placed it in /src/js/data/cityEntities.js ... ever since doing that, when i run npm run build-lowtool the build gets stuck at:

❯ npm run build-lowtool

> [email protected] build-lowtool
> webpack --config foe-info-low-webpack.config.js

92% sealing asset processing WebpackObfuscator

while when i revert the inclusion of that file, the build builds succesfully ...

so i'v looked up trough your readme on how to exclude a file from obfuscation, and did exactly that ... but still my build process gets stuck at 92% and takes forever to do it ...

this is my foe-info-low-webpack.config.js

var webpack = require("webpack"),
  path = require("path"),
  fileSystem = require("fs");

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");
const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require("clean-webpack-plugin");
const CopyPlugin = require("copy-webpack-plugin");
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require("html-webpack-plugin");
const WebpackExtensionManifestPlugin = require("webpack-extension-manifest-plugin");
const baseManifest = require("./src/chrome/manifest-low.json");
const pkg = require("./package.json");
const TerserPlugin = require("terser-webpack-plugin");
var JavaScriptObfuscator = require("webpack-obfuscator");
var ZipPlugin = require("zip-webpack-plugin");

const PACKAGE_NAME = "LoW-Tool";
const date = new Date().toISOString().substr(0, 10);

// const PUBLIC_PATH = process.env.PUBLIC_PATH || '/';

module.exports = {
  mode: "production",
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new TerserPlugin({
        terserOptions: {
          ecma: 6,
          parse: {},
          compress: {
            pure_funcs: ["console.info", "console.debug"],
          },
          format: {
            comments: false,
          },
          mangle: true,
          module: true,
          // Deprecated
          output: null,
          format: null,
          toplevel: false,
          nameCache: null,
          ie8: false,
          keep_classnames: false,
          keep_fnames: false,
          safari10: false,
        },
        extractComments: false,
      }),
    ],
  },
  entry: {
    app: "./src/extras/index.js",
    options: "./src/js/options.js",
    devtools: "./src/js/devtools.js",
    popup: "./src/js/popup.js",
  },
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: path.resolve(__dirname, "/node_modules", "/src/js/data/cityEntities.js"),
        // `.swcrc` can be used to configure swc
      },
      {
        test: /\.(sa|sc|c)ss$/,
        use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, "css-loader", "postcss-loader", "sass-loader"],
      },
      {
        test: /\.(png|svg|jpg|gif)$/,
        use: ["file-loader"],
      },
    ],
  },
  output: {
    filename: "[name].js",
    chunkFilename: "[name].js",
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, "build/" + PACKAGE_NAME),
    publicPath: "/",
  },
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin(),
    new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
      $: "jquery",
      jQuery: "jquery",
    }),
    new webpack.ProgressPlugin(),
    // clean the build folder
    new CleanWebpackPlugin({
      verbose: true,
      cleanStaleWebpackAssets: true,
    }),
    new webpack.DefinePlugin({
      // Definitions...
      EXT_NAME: JSON.stringify(PACKAGE_NAME),
      DEV: false,
    }),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: PACKAGE_NAME,
      manifest: "manifest.json",
      filename: "panel.html",
      template: "./src/chrome/panel.html",
      chunks: ["app"],
      hash: true,
    }),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: PACKAGE_NAME,
      filename: "options.html",
      template: "./src/chrome/options.html",
      chunks: ["options"],
    }),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: PACKAGE_NAME,
      filename: "popup.html",
      template: "./src/chrome/popup.html",
      chunks: ["popup"],
    }),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: PACKAGE_NAME,
      filename: "devtools.html",
      template: "./src/chrome/devtools.html",
      chunks: ["devtools"],
    }),
    new CopyPlugin({
      patterns: [
        {
          from: "node_modules/webextension-polyfill/dist/browser-polyfill.min.js",
        },
        { from: "./src/i18n", to: "i18n" },
        { from: "./src/icons/common", to: "icons" },
        { from: "./src/icons/foe-info-low", to: "icons" },
        { from: "src/images/logo90.png", to: "icons/" },
      ],
    }),
    new WebpackExtensionManifestPlugin({
      config: {
        base: baseManifest,
        extend: {
          version: pkg.version,
          name: PACKAGE_NAME,
          short_name: PACKAGE_NAME,
        },
      },
    }),
    new JavaScriptObfuscator(
      {
        compact: true,
        controlFlowFlattening: true,
        controlFlowFlatteningThreshold: 0.75,
        deadCodeInjection: true,
        deadCodeInjectionThreshold: 0.4,
        disableConsoleOutput: true,
        identifierNamesGenerator: "hexadecimal",
        log: false,
        numbersToExpressions: true,
        renameGlobals: true,
        rotateStringArray: true,
        selfDefending: true,
        shuffleStringArray: true,
        simplify: true,
        splitStrings: true,
        splitStringsChunkLength: 10,
        stringArray: true,
        stringArrayEncoding: ["base64"],
        stringArrayThreshold: 0.75,
        transformObjectKeys: true,
        unicodeEscapeSequence: false,
      },
      ["excluded_bundle_name.js"]
    ),
    new ZipPlugin({
      // OPTIONAL: defaults to the Webpack output path (above)
      // can be relative (to Webpack output path) or absolute
      path: "../",

      // OPTIONAL: defaults to the Webpack output filename (above) or,
      // if not present, the basename of the path
      filename: PACKAGE_NAME + "_" + pkg.version + "_" + date + ".zip",
    }),
  ],
  resolve: {
    extensions: [".tsx", ".ts", ".js"],
    fallback: {
      fs: false,
    },
  },
};

I'd appreciate any help making the build process actually work, did i exclude /src/js/data/cityEntities.js the proper way?