diff --git a/.babelrc b/.babelrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..37133a89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.babelrc
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "presets": ["es2015", "es2016", "react"],
+  "plugins": ["transform-object-rest-spread"],
+  "env": {
+    "production": {
+      "plugins": [
+        "transform-react-constant-elements",
+        "transform-react-inline-elements"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c2658d7d..bcd22bdb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 node_modules/
+build
+.DS_Store
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-	// load the styles
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-	if(typeof content === 'string') content = [[module.id, content, '']];
-	// add the styles to the DOM
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-	if(content.locals) module.exports = content.locals;
-	// Hot Module Replacement
-	if(false) {
-		// When the styles change, update the <style> tags
-		if(!content.locals) {
-			module.hot.accept("!!./node_modules/css-loader/index.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/index.js!./index.css", function() {
-				var newContent = require("!!./node_modules/css-loader/index.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/index.js!./index.css");
-				if(typeof newContent === 'string') newContent = [[module.id, newContent, '']];
-				update(newContent);
-			});
-		}
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-		module.hot.dispose(function() { update(); });
-	}
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-	exports = module.exports = __webpack_require__(3)();
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-		Author Tobias Koppers @sokra
-	*/
-	// css base code, injected by the css-loader
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-		var list = [];
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-		// return the list of modules as css string
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-		// import a list of modules into the list
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-			}
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-				if(typeof item[0] !== "number" || !alreadyImportedModules[item[0]]) {
-					if(mediaQuery && !item[2]) {
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-					} else if(mediaQuery) {
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-		};
-		return list;
-	};
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-		MIT License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
-		Author Tobias Koppers @sokra
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-	var stylesInDom = {},
-		memoize = function(fn) {
-			var memo;
-			return function () {
-				if (typeof memo === "undefined") memo = fn.apply(this, arguments);
-				return memo;
-			};
-		},
-		isOldIE = memoize(function() {
-			return /msie [6-9]\b/.test(window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase());
-		}),
-		getHeadElement = memoize(function () {
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-			if(typeof document !== "object") throw new Error("The style-loader cannot be used in a non-browser environment");
-		}
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-		options = options || {};
-		// Force single-tag solution on IE6-9, which has a hard limit on the # of <style>
-		// tags it will allow on a page
-		if (typeof options.singleton === "undefined") options.singleton = isOldIE();
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-		// By default, add <style> tags to the bottom of <head>.
-		if (typeof options.insertAt === "undefined") options.insertAt = "bottom";
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-		var styles = listToStyles(list);
-		addStylesToDom(styles, options);
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-		return function update(newList) {
-			var mayRemove = [];
-			for(var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
-				var item = styles[i];
-				var domStyle = stylesInDom[item.id];
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-				mayRemove.push(domStyle);
-			}
-			if(newList) {
-				var newStyles = listToStyles(newList);
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-			}
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-				var domStyle = mayRemove[i];
-				if(domStyle.refs === 0) {
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-						domStyle.parts[j]();
-					delete stylesInDom[domStyle.id];
-				}
-			}
-		};
-	}
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-			var item = styles[i];
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-			if(domStyle) {
-				domStyle.refs++;
-				for(var j = 0; j < domStyle.parts.length; j++) {
-					domStyle.parts[j](item.parts[j]);
-				}
-				for(; j < item.parts.length; j++) {
-					domStyle.parts.push(addStyle(item.parts[j], options));
-				}
-			} else {
-				var parts = [];
-				for(var j = 0; j < item.parts.length; j++) {
-					parts.push(addStyle(item.parts[j], options));
-				}
-				stylesInDom[item.id] = {id: item.id, refs: 1, parts: parts};
-			}
-		}
-	}
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-		var styles = [];
-		var newStyles = {};
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-			var id = item[0];
-			var css = item[1];
-			var media = item[2];
-			var sourceMap = item[3];
-			var part = {css: css, media: media, sourceMap: sourceMap};
-			if(!newStyles[id])
-				styles.push(newStyles[id] = {id: id, parts: [part]});
-			else
-				newStyles[id].parts.push(part);
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-		return styles;
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-			remove = applyToSingletonTag.bind(null, styleElement, styleIndex, true);
-		} else if(obj.sourceMap &&
-			typeof URL === "function" &&
-			typeof URL.createObjectURL === "function" &&
-			typeof URL.revokeObjectURL === "function" &&
-			typeof Blob === "function" &&
-			typeof btoa === "function") {
-			styleElement = createLinkElement(options);
-			update = updateLink.bind(null, styleElement);
-			remove = function() {
-				removeStyleElement(styleElement);
-				if(styleElement.href)
-					URL.revokeObjectURL(styleElement.href);
-			};
-		} else {
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-		}
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-					return;
-				update(obj = newObj);
-			} else {
-				remove();
-			}
-		};
-	}
-
-	var replaceText = (function () {
-		var textStore = [];
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-		return function (index, replacement) {
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-			return textStore.filter(Boolean).join('\n');
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-		var css = remove ? "" : obj.css;
-
-		if (styleElement.styleSheet) {
-			styleElement.styleSheet.cssText = replaceText(index, css);
-		} else {
-			var cssNode = document.createTextNode(css);
-			var childNodes = styleElement.childNodes;
-			if (childNodes[index]) styleElement.removeChild(childNodes[index]);
-			if (childNodes.length) {
-				styleElement.insertBefore(cssNode, childNodes[index]);
-			} else {
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-		}
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-		var css = obj.css;
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-		if(media) {
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-		}
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-		if(styleElement.styleSheet) {
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-		} else {
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-			styleElement.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
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-	function updateLink(linkElement, obj) {
-		var css = obj.css;
-		var sourceMap = obj.sourceMap;
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-		if(sourceMap) {
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diff --git a/devServer.js b/devServer.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f9d30cad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devServer.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+var webpack = require('webpack');
+var WebpackDevServer = require('webpack-dev-server');
+var config = require('./webpack.config.dev');
+
+new WebpackDevServer(webpack(config), {
+  publicPath: config.output.publicPath,
+  historyApiFallback: true,
+  colors: true,
+  noInfo: true
+}).listen(3000, 'localhost', function (err, result) {
+  if (err) {
+    return console.log(err);
+  }
+  console.log('Listening at http://localhost:3000/');
+});
diff --git a/index.css b/index.css
deleted file mode 100644
index e2224ea2..00000000
--- a/index.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-body {
-  background: yellow;
-  border-radius: 10px;
-}
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 846fc929..00000000
--- a/index.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-
-require("./index.css");
-document.write('hello');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c9ace09d..32396751 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,9 +1,26 @@
 {
   "name": "react-getting-started",
+  "scripts": {
+    "start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node devServer.js",
+    "build": "rimraf build && cross-env NODE_ENV=production webpack --config webpack.config.prod.js"
+  },
   "dependencies": {
     "autoprefixer": "^6.3.7",
+    "babel-core": "^6.10.4",
+    "babel-loader": "^6.2.4",
+    "babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread": "^6.8.0",
+    "babel-plugin-transform-react-constant-elements": "^6.9.1",
+    "babel-plugin-transform-react-inline-elements": "^6.8.0",
+    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.9.0",
+    "babel-preset-es2016": "^6.11.3",
+    "babel-preset-react": "^6.11.1",
+    "cross-env": "^2.0.0",
     "css-loader": "^0.23.1",
+    "html-webpack-plugin": "^2.22.0",
     "postcss-loader": "^0.9.1",
+    "react": "^15.2.1",
+    "react-dom": "^15.2.1",
+    "rimraf": "^2.5.3",
     "style-loader": "^0.13.1",
     "webpack": "^1.13.1",
     "webpack-dev-server": "^1.14.1"
diff --git a/src/App.css b/src/App.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9be70579
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/App.css
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.App {
+  background: red;
+  width: 100px;
+  height: 100px;
+}
diff --git a/src/App.js b/src/App.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c9bfe3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/App.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import React, { Component } from 'react';
+import './App.css';
+
+export default class App extends Component {
+  render() {
+    return (
+      <div className='App'>
+        Hello!
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e50915a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { render } from 'react-dom';
+import App from './App';
+
+const rootEl = document.createElement('div');
+document.body.appendChild(rootEl);
+render(<App />, rootEl);
diff --git a/webpack.config.dev.js b/webpack.config.dev.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c94a82e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webpack.config.dev.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+var path = require('path');
+var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
+var webpack = require('webpack');
+var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
+
+module.exports = {
+  devtool: 'source-map',
+  entry: './src/index.js',
+  output: {
+    // Next line is not used in dev but WebpackDevServer crashes without it:
+    path: path.join(__dirname, 'build'),
+    filename: 'bundle.js',
+    publicPath: '/'
+  },
+  module: {
+    loaders: [
+      {
+        test: /\.css$/,
+        include: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
+        loader: 'style!css!postcss'
+      },
+      {
+        test: /\.js$/,
+        include: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
+        loader: 'babel'
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  postcss: function () {
+    return [ autoprefixer ];
+  },
+  plugins: [
+    // TODO: infer from package.json?
+    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ title: 'My React Project' }),
+    new webpack.DefinePlugin({ 'process.env.NODE_ENV': '"development"' })
+  ]
+};
diff --git a/webpack.config.js b/webpack.config.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 126ef266..00000000
--- a/webpack.config.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
-
-module.exports = {
-  entry: "./index.js",
-  output: {
-    path: __dirname + '/build',
-    filename: "bundle.js"
-  },
-  module: {
-    loaders: [
-      { test: /\.css$/, loader: "style-loader!css-loader!postcss-loader" }
-    ]
-  },
-  postcss: function () {
-    return [ autoprefixer ];
-  }
-};
diff --git a/webpack.config.prod.js b/webpack.config.prod.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..24597ac1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webpack.config.prod.js
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+var path = require('path');
+var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
+var webpack = require('webpack');
+var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
+
+module.exports = {
+  devtool: 'source-map',
+  entry: './src/index.js',
+  output: {
+    path: path.join(__dirname, 'build'),
+    filename: '[name].[hash].js',
+    // TODO: this wouldn't work for e.g. GH Pages.
+    // Good news: we can infer it from package.json :-)
+    publicPath: '/'
+  },
+  module: {
+    loaders: [
+      {
+        test: /\.css$/,
+        include: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
+        loader: 'style!css!postcss'
+      },
+      {
+        test: /\.js$/,
+        include: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
+        loader: 'babel'
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  postcss: function () {
+    return [ autoprefixer ];
+  },
+  plugins: [
+    // TODO: infer from package.json?
+    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ title: 'My React Project' }),
+    new webpack.DefinePlugin({ 'process.env.NODE_ENV': '"production"' }),
+    new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
+    new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({ compressor: { warnings: false } })
+  ]
+};