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.vendor.js

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+var path = require('path');
+var webpack = require('webpack');
+var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
+var extractCSS = new ExtractTextPlugin('vendor.css');
+var isDevelopment = process.env.ASPNET_ENV === 'Development';
+
+module.exports = {
+    resolve: {
+        extensions: [ '', '.js' ]
+    },
+    module: {
+        loaders: [
+            { test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)$/, loader: 'url-loader?limit=100000' },
+            { test: /\.css/, loader: extractCSS.extract(['css']) }
+        ]
+    },
+    entry: {
+        vendor: ['bootstrap', 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css', 'style-loader', 'jquery']
+    },
+    output: {
+        path: path.join(__dirname, 'wwwroot', 'dist'),
+        filename: '[name].js',
+        library: '[name]_[hash]',
+    },
+    plugins: [
+        extractCSS,
+        new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ $: 'jquery', jQuery: 'jquery' }), // Maps these identifiers to the jQuery package (because Bootstrap expects it to be a global variable)
+        new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(),
+        new webpack.DllPlugin({
+            path: path.join(__dirname, 'wwwroot', 'dist', '[name]-manifest.json'),
+            name: '[name]_[hash]'
+        })
+    ].concat(isDevelopment ? [] : [
+        new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({ compress: { warnings: false } })
+    ])
+};