• Operating System: any
• Node Version: v8.9.4
• NPM Version: 5.6.0
• webpack Version: 4.0.0-beta.1
• webpack-dev-server Version: 3.0.0-beta.2

• This is a bug
• This is a modification request

Code

  // webpack.config.js
  // No config :)

Since #1295 got closed I'm opening a new issue of a feature request I mentioned there.

Could webpack-dev-server provide a default for the output.publicPath config? With this webpack-dev-server could be also used without any config like Webpack 4.

I'd propose the config to be

output: {
  publicPath: "/dist",
}

because it matches the default Webpack 4 ouput directory.