I've had some major headaches getting TypeScript to work with Babel and Webpack 2. The main reason I had to use Babel was because I wanted to use Webpack 2's tree shaking feature. Do you know if it's possible to use just TypeScript and Webpack without Babel, and still take advantage of tree shaking?

Honestly this is the main thing keeping me from using TypeScript. I've spent hours, maybe days trying to deal with the mess of Babel/webpack/TS combined with ES6 modules (necessary for tree shaking).

Another problem I ran into was using various packages that weren't typed, but I suppose I can solve that by 'allowing' implicitAny.

I'd really love some advice on this because I want to use TypeScript. It's just been a major headache so far because things are complicated enough with all the other moving parts (Babel presets, import vs require, better but still not well documented Webpack 2, etc.).