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Ask HN: How do you develop sites targeting IE in 2019?

1 points by iequery ↗ HN
For various reasons, I have to support IE (11) in my work on a large React/Redux/Bootstrap app, using fairly standard Babel transpiration and polyfills.

I’m interested to hear how others in similar situations manage this problem - questions like:

Do you develop IE-first or have it as part of a testing checklist?

What have you learned about performance optimization for the IE VM?

Are there alternatives to the very slow F12 devtools?

And any other tips you’ve collected while supporting the browser.

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Porthos9K
IE11? You lucky stiff. I'm still supporting IE6 (and getting hazard pay for it). I do it with lots of progressive enhancement, handwritten JS, profanity, and monthly pub crawls. By default the apps I build don't even do AJAX; the baseline is HTTP GET and POST to a REST API with full-page refreshes.