diff --git a/examples/readme.md b/examples/readme.md
index a32f178dbb..9a1b4c49e9 100644
--- a/examples/readme.md
+++ b/examples/readme.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Code examples
 
-The `.html` files in this folder are built by applying the templates in the `config/examples/` folder. Examples have [YAML front-matter](http://www.metalsmith.io) headers with the following properties:
+The `.html` files in this folder are built by applying the templates in the `templates` folder. Examples have [YAML front-matter](http://www.metalsmith.io) headers with the following properties:
 
-* layout: The template from the `config/examples/` directory to use for this example
+* layout: The template from the `templates` directory to use for this example
 * title: The title of the example
 * shortdesc: A short description for the example index
 * docs: Documentation of the example. Can be markdown.
diff --git a/config/examples/example-verbatim.html b/examples/templates/example-verbatim.html
similarity index 100%
rename from config/examples/example-verbatim.html
rename to examples/templates/example-verbatim.html
diff --git a/config/examples/example.html b/examples/templates/example.html
similarity index 96%
rename from config/examples/example.html
rename to examples/templates/example.html
index 16b86ba499..92e80cdb0b 100644
--- a/config/examples/example.html
+++ b/examples/templates/example.html
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
         <div class="span12">
           <p id="shortdesc">{{ shortdesc }}</p>
           <div id="docs">{{ md docs }}</div>
-          <div id="api-links">Related API documentation: {{{ js.apiHtml }}}</div>
         </div>
       </div>
 
@@ -105,7 +104,7 @@
     var branchSearch = url.match(/\/([^\/]*)\/examples\//);
     var cookieText = 'dismissed=-' + latestVersion + '-';
     var dismissed = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieText) != -1;
-    if (!dismissed && /^v[0-9\.]*$/.test(branchSearch[1]) && '{{ olVersion }}' != latestVersion) {
+    if (branchSearch && !dismissed && /^v[0-9\.]*$/.test(branchSearch[1]) && '{{ olVersion }}' != latestVersion) {
       var link = url.replace(branchSearch[0], '/latest/examples/');
       fetch(link, {method: 'head'}).then(function(response) {
         var a = document.getElementById('latest-link');
diff --git a/config/examples/readme.md b/examples/templates/readme.md
similarity index 100%
rename from config/examples/readme.md
rename to examples/templates/readme.md
diff --git a/examples/webpack/.eslintrc b/examples/webpack/.eslintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92ab127997
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/webpack/.eslintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "env": {
+    "node": true,
+    "es6": true
+  },
+  "parserOptions": {
+    "ecmaVersion": 2017
+  },
+  "rules": {
+    "space-before-function-paren": ["error", {
+      "anonymous": "never",
+      "named": "never",
+      "asyncArrow": "always"
+    }]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/examples/webpack/config.js b/examples/webpack/config.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dddddd3c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/webpack/config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+const CopyPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
+const ExampleBuilder = require('./example-builder');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const webpack = require('webpack');
+
+const src = path.join(__dirname, '..');
+
+const examples = fs.readdirSync(src)
+    .filter(name => /^(?!index).*\.html$/.test(name))
+    .map(name => name.replace(/\.html$/, ''));
+
+const entry = {};
+examples.forEach(example => {
+  entry[example] = `./${example}.js`;
+});
+
+module.exports = {
+  context: src,
+  target: 'web',
+  entry: entry,
+  plugins: [
+    new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
+      name: 'common',
+      minChunks: 2
+    }),
+    new ExampleBuilder({
+      templates: path.join(__dirname, '..', 'templates'),
+      common: 'common'
+    }),
+    new CopyPlugin([
+      {from: '../css', to: 'css'},
+      {from: 'data', to: 'data'},
+      {from: 'resources', to: 'resources'},
+      {from: 'Jugl.js', to: 'Jugl.js'},
+      {from: 'index.html', to: 'index.html'}
+    ])
+  ],
+  output: {
+    filename: '[name].js',
+    path: path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'build', 'examples')
+  }
+};
diff --git a/examples/webpack/example-builder.js b/examples/webpack/example-builder.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5932b7a011
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/webpack/example-builder.js
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+const frontMatter = require('front-matter');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const handlebars = require('handlebars');
+const marked = require('marked');
+const path = require('path');
+const pkg = require('../../package.json');
+const promisify = require('util').promisify;
+
+const readFile = promisify(fs.readFile);
+const isCssRegEx = /\.css$/;
+const isJsRegEx = /\.js(\?.*)?$/;
+
+handlebars.registerHelper('md', str => new handlebars.SafeString(marked(str)));
+
+handlebars.registerHelper('indent', (text, options) => {
+  if (!text) {
+    return text;
+  }
+  const count = options.hash.spaces || 2;
+  const spaces = new Array(count + 1).join(' ');
+  return text.split('\n').map(line => line ? spaces + line : '').join('\n');
+});
+
+/**
+ * Create an inverted index of keywords from examples.  Property names are
+ * lowercased words.  Property values are objects mapping example index to word
+ * count.
+ * @param {Array.<Object>} exampleData Array of example data objects.
+ * @return {Object} Word index.
+ */
+function createWordIndex(exampleData) {
+  const index = {};
+  const keys = ['shortdesc', 'title', 'tags'];
+  exampleData.forEach((data, i) => {
+    keys.forEach(key => {
+      let text = data[key];
+      if (Array.isArray(text)) {
+        text = text.join(' ');
+      }
+      let words = text ? text.split(/\W+/) : [];
+      words.forEach(word => {
+        if (word) {
+          word = word.toLowerCase();
+          let counts = index[word];
+          if (counts) {
+            if (index in counts) {
+              counts[i] += 1;
+            } else {
+              counts[i] = 1;
+            }
+          } else {
+            counts = {};
+            counts[i] = 1;
+            index[word] = counts;
+          }
+        }
+      });
+    });
+  });
+  return index;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A webpack plugin that builds the html files for our examples.
+ * @param {Object} config Plugin configuration.  Requires a `templates` property
+ * with the path to templates and a `common` property with the name of the
+ * common chunk.
+ * @constructor
+ */
+function ExampleBuilder(config) {
+  this.templates = config.templates;
+  this.common = config.common;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Called by webpack.
+ * @param {Object} compiler The webpack compiler.
+ */
+ExampleBuilder.prototype.apply = function(compiler) {
+  compiler.plugin('emit', async (compilation, callback) => {
+    const chunks = compilation.getStats().toJson().chunks
+        .filter(chunk => chunk.names[0] !== this.common);
+
+    const exampleData = [];
+    const promises = chunks.map(async chunk => {
+      const [assets, data] = await this.render(compiler.context, chunk);
+
+      exampleData.push({
+        link: data.filename,
+        example: data.filename,
+        title: data.title,
+        shortdesc: data.shortdesc,
+        tags: data.tags
+      });
+
+      for (const file in assets) {
+        compilation.assets[file] = {
+          source: () => assets[file],
+          size: () => assets[file].length
+        };
+      }
+    });
+
+    try {
+      await Promise.all(promises);
+    } catch (err) {
+      callback(err);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const info = {
+      examples: exampleData,
+      index: createWordIndex(exampleData)
+    };
+
+    const indexSource = `var info = ${JSON.stringify(info)}`;
+    compilation.assets['index.js'] = {
+      source: () => indexSource,
+      size: () => indexSource.length
+    };
+
+    callback();
+  });
+};
+
+ExampleBuilder.prototype.render = async function(dir, chunk) {
+  const name = chunk.names[0];
+
+  const assets = {};
+  const readOptions = {encoding: 'utf8'};
+
+  const htmlName = `${name}.html`;
+  const htmlPath = path.join(dir, htmlName);
+  const htmlSource = await readFile(htmlPath, readOptions);
+
+  const {attributes, body} = frontMatter(htmlSource);
+  const data = Object.assign(attributes, {contents: body});
+
+  data.olVersion = pkg.version;
+  data.filename = htmlName;
+
+  // add in script tag
+  const jsName = `${name}.js`;
+  let jsSource = chunk.modules[0].source;
+  if (data.cloak) {
+    for (const key in data.cloak) {
+      jsSource = jsSource.replace(new RegExp(key, 'g'), data.cloak[key]);
+    }
+  }
+  data.js = {
+    tag: `<script src="${this.common}.js"></script><script src="${jsName}"></script>`,
+    source: jsSource
+  };
+
+  // check for example css
+  const cssName = `${name}.css`;
+  const cssPath = path.join(dir, cssName);
+  let cssSource;
+  try {
+    cssSource = await readFile(cssPath, readOptions);
+  } catch (err) {
+    // pass
+  }
+  if (cssSource) {
+    data.css = {
+      tag: `<link rel="stylesheet" href="${cssName}">`,
+      source: cssSource
+    };
+    assets[cssName] = cssSource;
+  }
+
+  // add additional resources
+  if (data.resources) {
+    const resources = [];
+    const remoteResources = [];
+    const codePenResources = [];
+    for (let i = 0, ii = data.resources.length; i < ii; ++i) {
+      const resource = data.resources[i];
+      const remoteResource = resource.indexOf('//') === -1 ?
+        `https://openlayers.org/en/v${pkg.version}/examples/${resource}` : resource;
+      codePenResources[i] = remoteResource;
+      if (isJsRegEx.test(resource)) {
+        resources[i] = `<script src="${resource}"></script>`;
+        remoteResources[i] = `<script src="${remoteResource}"></script>`;
+      } else if (isCssRegEx.test(resource)) {
+        if (resource.indexOf('bootstrap.min.css') === -1) {
+          resources[i] = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="' + resource + '">';
+        }
+        remoteResources[i] = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="' +
+            remoteResource + '">';
+      } else {
+        throw new Error('Invalid value for resource: ' +
+            resource + ' is not .js or .css: ' + htmlName);
+      }
+    }
+    data.extraHead = {
+      local: resources.join('\n'),
+      remote: remoteResources.join('\n')
+    };
+    data.extraResources = data.resources.length ?
+      ',' + codePenResources.join(',') : '';
+  }
+
+  const templatePath = path.join(this.templates, attributes.layout);
+  const templateSource = await readFile(templatePath, readOptions);
+
+  assets[htmlName] = handlebars.compile(templateSource)(data);
+  return [assets, data];
+};
+
+module.exports = ExampleBuilder;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 27ed53fcd1..dba538b3c2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
     "changecase-src": "node tasks/filename-case-from-module.js",
     "transform-examples": "jscodeshift --transform transforms/module.js examples",
     "transform-test": "jscodeshift --transform transforms/module.js test",
-    "transform": "npm run changecase-src && npm run transform-src && npm run transform-examples && npm run transform-test && npm run lint -- --fix"
+    "transform": "npm run changecase-src && npm run transform-src && npm run transform-examples && npm run transform-test && npm run lint -- --fix",
+    "build-examples": "webpack --config examples/webpack/config.js"
   },
   "main": "dist/ol.js",
   "repository": {
@@ -58,12 +59,15 @@
     "coveralls": "3.0.0",
     "debounce": "^1.1.0",
     "eslint": "4.13.1",
+    "copy-webpack-plugin": "^4.0.1",
     "eslint-config-openlayers": "7.0.0",
     "eslint-plugin-openlayers-internal": "^3.1.0",
     "expect.js": "0.3.1",
+    "front-matter": "^2.1.2",
     "gaze": "^1.0.0",
     "glob": "7.1.1",
     "handlebars": "4.0.11",
+    "html-webpack-plugin": "^2.30.1",
     "istanbul": "0.4.5",
     "jquery": "3.2.1",
     "jscodeshift": "^0.4.0",
@@ -85,7 +89,9 @@
     "serve-files": "1.0.1",
     "sinon": "4.1.3",
     "slimerjs": "0.10.3",
-    "url-polyfill": "^1.0.7"
+    "url-polyfill": "^1.0.7",
+    "webpack": "^3.5.5",
+    "webpack-dev-server": "^2.7.1"
   },
   "eslintConfig": {
     "extends": "openlayers",
@@ -138,8 +144,7 @@
       ]
     }
   },
-  "ext": [
-    {
+  "ext": [{
       "module": "rbush"
     },
     {