Webpack and grunt (or gulp)together?

Hello world.

Actually read the title as:

> "webpack and <whatever-task-runner>...together?"

I am ranting here today, only because, I just wanna know if "its okay..."

webpack is a great bundler. Its primary goal is to reduce the number of requests a browser would have to make to load your webpage (which may be a composition of many libraries - javascript or css). Which is cool...

But is webpack "only enough"?!

For something as basic as a "copy file operation" I had to..."do a lot of stuff". (https://github.com/deostroll/requests-spy/blob/ba40eee3bdbc7895aff45050bbd487699a202f30/webpack.config.js#L35-L55)

What I intended to do in the config I have linked to does its job. But webpack it still complains. It kinda got me wondering...

> Is webpack was meant to do those "basic" things...?!!

I'd rather use the node api for webpack from within some task-runner like grunt or gulp. I am simply much happier with how those tools support those "basic" things...

Perhaps I am biased...Whats your take on this?