I’ve looked at browser support for ES6 + async/await for our sites and as it looks transpiling to ES5 might not be worth it. It makes less than 1% difference in browser coverage. As a test I tried to find a browserslist config that allows this.

So far I’ve tried:

• defaults and supports es6 → Still transpiles to ES5 (output is identical to defaults)
• defaults and supports es6 and supports async-functions → fails with an error unknown Statement of type "ForOfStatement" which might be some Babel bug.

Is there a way to use microbundle to bundle and minify JS and still have ES6 output?