Issues Troubleshooting WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Issues

I have been having some trouble trying to use the WP Bakery Page Builder on one of our sites, I go to view my site on the front end when im logged in and click on the tab to use the visual builder and the page gets stuck in an endless loading loop. I first googled my issue and followed all of the troubleshooting steps in this tutorial - https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/visual-composer-issues/

I then went to inspect the page and see if I could view any console errors and this is what I found:

Uncaught TypeError: _.template(…).trim is not a function
at n.addControls (custom_views.js?ver=4.7.4:81)
at n.render (frontend_editor.js?ver=4.7.4:382)
at n.render (custom_views.js?ver=4.7.4:54)
at n.render (custom_views.js?ver=4.7.4:307)
at vc.ShortcodesBuilder.renderShortcode (shortcodes_builder.js?ver=4.7.4:191)
at vc.ShortcodesBuilder._renderBlockCallback (shortcodes_builder.js?ver=4.7.4:161)
at vc.ShortcodesBuilder. (shortcodes_builder.js?ver=4.7.4:95)
at load-scripts.php?c=0&load[]=hoverIntent,common,jquery-ui-sortable,postbox,admin-bar,jquery-ui-tabs,jquery-ui-droppable,jquery-ui-accordion,jquery-ui-menu,wp&load[]=-a11y,jquery-ui-autocomplete,jquery-ui-resizable,underscore,backbone,wp-util,wp-backbone,media-models,wp-plupload,wp-mediaelemen&load[]=t,wp-api-request,media-views,shortcode,media-editor,media-audiovideo,mce-view,imgareaselect,image-edit,thickbox,svg-painter,sugg&load[]=est,wp-ajax-response,jquery-color,wp-lists,tags-suggest,tags-box,word-count,post,editor,quicktags,wplink,media-upload,wp-embed&ver=4.9.6:87
at Function.m.each.m.forEach (load-scripts.php?c=0&load[]=hoverIntent,common,jquery-ui-sortable,postbox,admin-bar,jquery-ui-tabs,jquery-ui-droppable,jquery-ui-accordion,jquery-ui-menu,wp&load[]=-a11y,jquery-ui-autocomplete,jquery-ui-resizable,underscore,backbone,wp-util,wp-backbone,media-models,wp-plupload,wp-mediaelemen&load[]=t,wp-api-request,media-views,shortcode,media-editor,media-audiovideo,mce-view,imgareaselect,image-edit,thickbox,svg-painter,sugg&load[]=est,wp-ajax-response,jquery-color,wp-lists,tags-suggest,tags-box,word-count,post,editor,quicktags,wplink,media-upload,wp-embed&ver=4.9.6:87)
at vc.ShortcodesBuilder.buildFromContent (shortcodes_builder.js?ver=4.7.4:82)

Does anyone have some insight on how to eliminate these console errors/ have this same issue occur?