Not sure if you're aware, but the vue-webpack template actually switched over to webpack-dev-server just last week https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/r

Not sure if you're aware, but the vue-webpack template actually switched over to webpack-dev-server just last week https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/releases/tag/1.2.0 https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/releases/tag/1.2....