react with IE11 is not working, displaying blank screen

Question

when trying to load application in IE11 it just shows blank screen and errors with syntax error

on this line

class App extends __WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_0_react__["Component"] {

my package.json

{
  "name": "ccp-react",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "license": "MIT",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "webpack-dev-server",
    "build": "webpack"
  },
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "babel-plugin-lodash": "^3.3.2",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-preset-react-optimize": "^1.0.1",
    "babel-preset-stage-1": "^6.24.1",
    "bootstrap": "^3.3.7",
    "classnames": "^2.2.5",
    "create-react-class": "^15.6.2",
    "cross-env": "^5.1.3",
    "gulp": "^3.9.1",
    "hammerjs": "^2.0.8",
    "lodash": "^4.17.4",
    "ng": "0.0.0-rc6",
    "ng-cli": "^0.7.0",
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0",
    "react-icons-kit": "^1.0.7",
    "react-redux": "^5.0.6",
    "react-router": "^4.2.0",
    "react-router-dom": "^4.2.2",
    "react-side-bar": "^0.3.5",
    "react-sidenav": "^2.1.2",
    "redux": "^3.7.2",
    "rxjs": "^5.5.6",
    "systemjs": "^0.20.19",
    "web-animations-js": "^2.3.1",
    "zone.js": "^0.8.19"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/jasmine": "~2.5.53",
    "@types/jasminewd2": "~2.0.2",
    "@types/node": "^6.0.95",
    "babel-core": "^6.26.0",
    "babel-loader": "^7.1.2",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
    "core-js": "^2.5.3",
    "css-loader": "^0.28.8",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.2",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "^2.30.1",
    "jasmine-core": "~2.6.2",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.1.0",
    "karma": "~1.7.0",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.1.1",
    "karma-cli": "~1.0.1",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "^1.3.3",
    "karma-jasmine": "^1.1.1",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2",
    "node-sass": "^4.7.2",
    "protractor": "~5.1.2",
    "sass-loader": "^6.0.6",
    "style-loader": "^0.19.1",
    "ts-node": "~3.2.0",
    "tslint": "~5.7.0",
    "typescript": "~2.4.2",
    "webpack": "^3.10.0",
    "webpack-bundle-analyzer": "^2.8.2",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^2.9.7"
  }
}

I have the following imports in my index.js file

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import 'core-js/fn/promise';

my webpack is set up as

var HTMLWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var HTMLWebpackPluginConfig = new HTMLWebpackPlugin({
    template: __dirname + '/app/index.html',
    filename: 'index.html',
    inject: 'body'
});

const ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");

const extractSass = new ExtractTextPlugin({
    filename: "[name].[contenthash].css",
    disable: process.env.NODE_ENV === "development"
});

module.exports = {
    entry : __dirname + '/app/index.js',
    module: {
         rules: [
            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: {
                    loader: 'babel-loader'
                }
            } ,
            {
                test: /\.scss$/,
                use: [{
                    loader: "style-loader"
                }, {
                    loader: "css-loader"
                }, {
                    loader: "sass-loader",
                }]
            }
        ],
    },
    output: {
        filename: 'transformed.js',
        path: __dirname + '/docs'
    },
    plugins: [
        HTMLWebpackPluginConfig,
        extractSass,
        new ExtractTextPlugin("styles.css")
    ]
}

Answer 1

i have updated my webpack and babelrc to the following and it is working now.

.babelrc

{
  "presets": [
    'es2015', "react",
  ]
}

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
    entry : [__dirname + '/app/index.js'],
    module: {
         rules: [
            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: {
                    loader: 'babel-loader'
                }
            } ,
            {
                test: /\.scss$/,
                use: [{
                    loader: "style-loader"
                }, {
                    loader: "css-loader"
                }, {
                    loader: "sass-loader",
                }]
            }
        ],
    },
    output: {
        filename: 'bundle.js',
        path: __dirname + '/docs'
    }
}

Answer 2

Had the same issue and wanted to avoid npm run eject, so I included this script in index.html while in development mode:

<script src="//cdn.polyfill.io/v2/polyfill.min.js"></script>

It worked for me with npx create-react-app my-app version 1 in React v16.6.3

I needed to also test production but 127.0.0.1 didn't work for me either, so I used netlify with command netlify deploy and it worked.