Change WebApplicationBasic template to use web pack vendor DLL and to load CSS as a file (not via JS). Also remove Babel as it's not doing anything here.

templates/WebApplicationBasic/webpack.config.prod.js

@@ -1,15 +1,8 @@
 var webpack = require('webpack');
-var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
-var extractCSS = new ExtractTextPlugin('site.css');
 
 module.exports = {
-    module: {
-        loaders: [
-            { test: /\.css/, loader: extractCSS.extract(['css']) },
-        ]
-    },
     plugins: [
-        extractCSS,
+        new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(),
         new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({ minimize: true })
     ]
 };