[antjanus]

There IS an abstraction on top of Webpack called "terse webpack":

https://github.com/ericclemmons/terse-webpack

It seems to have presets for sane defaults on the roadmap.

[ericclemmons]

I'm redoing that whole stack, as it was a prototype to get buy-in to "fix" the Webpack API for most cases.

For an eslint-style plugin system I'd recommend webpack-blocks.