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IE11 returns a blank page

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
fsharp, react
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start with the linked fable-react-ie11-minimal-repo and reproduce the blank page in IE11 using the example where children come from returnList. Compare the behavior and error output with the other browsers, then verify that the example renders both strings in IE11 without errors.

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Description

When the children of a react element are coming from another function IE11 renders a blank page.

let returnList =
    [ R.str "hello1"
      R.str "hello2" ]

let app = R.div [] returnList

This is a minimal example which returns a blank page on IE11.
The error log is empty, so it is very obscure what's happening here.

All other browsers I've tested (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) return the children as expected.

I've created a repo with the code: https://github.com/toburger/fable-react-ie11-minimal-repo

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