possible to rebuild blendid without gulp?

[BD (Ben) Tinsley]

wondering if webpack is at a place where gulp can be completely removed from blendid, so that configuration only happens on a webpack-config file rather than having to maintain gulp tasks and task/path config files.

in terms of ease of maintainability, this would be a definite benefit to move off gulp. ideally all the current tasks should be translatable into webpack, otherwise it's probably a no. after digging into webpack 3 documentation, there seems like there are enough webpack plugins to accomplish what we need.