For users of Visual Studio 2015, there's an extension available for Task Runner Explorerhere. For older versions of Visual Studio, it is a simple task to integrate Visual Studio with Webpack. All you need to do is use the external tool feature. After following the instructions below, you'll see a new command button on the ribbon within the IDE. Clicking the button will toggle Webpack's watch mode on and off. When turned on, a change to any bundle dependencies will trigger the Webpack build process. The output will appear within Visual Studio's Output window.

1. Open the External Tools dialog box and click Add.
2. Title: webpack
3. Command: The path to thewebpack.cmd file. Assuming Webpack was installed globally with npm, the path is:C:\Users\{{username}}\AppData\Roaming\npm\webpack.cmd
4. Arguments:-w (can also specify otherCLI options, such as--display-modules)
5. CheckUse Output window

1. On the menu bar, right click and selectCustomize....
2. Click on theCommands tab and click onToolBar radio button to select the newly created external tool.
3. Select Standard and click onAdd Command ... button.
4. On the left lit item, selectTools and than select theExternal Command X item where X is the index of your tool that appears in theTools menu (starting index => 1). In my exampleExternal Command 6.
5. ClickOk and thenClose.