Nikolai Mavrenkov already created a good description of the problem on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36893449/textarea-placeholder-isnt-shown-in-ie-11-being-rendered-using-react

I just can confirm it breaks in IE11, but works in IE10 (and other browsers) with React v15.0.2.

if (internalInstance) {
    var owner = internalInstance._currentElement._owner || null;
    if (owner) {
      var name = owner.getName();
      if (name) {
        return ' This DOM node was rendered by `' + name + '`.';
      }
    }
  }
  return '';
}
function friendlyStringify(obj) {