I've solved my webpack config woes by using HJS-Webpack[0] which describes itself as "Helpers/presets for setting up webpack with hotloading react and ES6(2015)

I've solved my webpack config woes by using HJS-Webpack[0] which describes itself as "Helpers/presets for setting up webpack with hotloading react and ES6(2015) using Babel." It provides you with a base configuration object, which has been setup with any loaders that it has detected in your node_modules. You can then extend and customize as needed. [0] https://github.com/HenrikJoreteg/hjs-webpack https://github.com/HenrikJoreteg/hjs-webpack