[IE11] Kibana doesn't transpile correctly in development mode

[afgomez]

Kibana version:
master

Elasticsearch version:
master

Browser version:
IE11

Browser OS version:
Browserstack

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.):
Source

Describe the bug:
Internet Explorer 11 refuses to load Kibana due to a transpilation error. The code contains a for..of loop which isn't supported in IE11.

Steps to reproduce:

1. start kibana with BROWSERLISTS_ENV=production yarn start
2. Open kibana in IE11

Screenshots (if relevant):

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-operations (Team:Operations)

[chandlerprall]

I believe this is the @elastic/charts dependency (we saw the same error in EUI) - Kibana is on 17.0.2 and there's an IE11 fix in 17.0.3

[tylersmalley]

@markov00, can you take a look at this?

[tylersmalley]

Or someone from @elastic/elastic-charts

[joshdover]

@elastic/charts was updated in #57634 but I'm still seeing this problem on master:

[joshdover]

Appears to be an error while eval'ing the punycode npm module, however I don't see any recent changes to which version we use in our yarn.lock. Must be being imported in a way that it wasn't before?

[tylersmalley]

@joshdover looks like punycode was bumped as part of 439708a but since that was merged into 7.6 I would expect to see that issue there as well which I understand isn't the case.

The underlying issue is that ajv, a dependency of punycode, is using template literals.

[joshdover]

I've tracked this down to actually be query-string@6 that was introduced in #56957. v6 does not support IE, but v5 does.

Reverting this does not appear to be an option, there are many files it touched that have been modified since that creates conflicts. I'm going to attempt to downgrade to v5 and see what I break. If it's a lot I will probably delegate this to @elastic/kibana-app-arch who made the original change.

[joshdover]

There are quite a few changes here required. Will open separate issue for that piece, but I think there are some other issues as well.

Edit: new issue here: #58684

[markov00]

Sorry folks for the late reply, seems not related to elastic-charts so I removed that label

[tylersmalley]

Closing as the issue referenced here was resolved. In addition, IE 11 support is being dropped as of 7.9 per https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_browsers