|  | ### Why Webpack? |  | ### Why Webpack? | 
|  | We are choosing to use [webpack](http://webpack.github.io/docs/) as our development environment for a variety of reasons: |  | We are choosing to use [webpack](http://webpack.github.io/docs/) as our Angular 2 development environment for a variety of reasons: | 
|  | * powerful loader/transpiler pipelines |  | * powerful loader/transpiler pipelines | 
|  | * has a robust development server (WDS--webpack-dev-server) |  | * has a robust development server (WDS--webpack-dev-server) | 
|  | * avoids the ridiculous SystemJS config that the Angular team shows in their docs |  | * avoids the ridiculous SystemJS config that the Angular team shows in their docs | 
| ... |  | ... |  |