diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+build/
+node_modules/
diff --git a/app/containers/Application.css b/app/containers/Application.css
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diff --git a/app/containers/Application.jsx b/app/containers/Application.jsx
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+++ b/app/containers/Application.jsx
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+import React from "react";
+
+import styles from "./Application.css";
+
+export default class Application extends React.Component {
+  render() {
+    return <div className={ styles.application }>
+      <h1>This is an applidjfcation container</h1>
+      { this.props.children }
+    </div>
+  }
+}
+
diff --git a/app/containers/Login.css b/app/containers/Login.css
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index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/app/containers/Login.jsx b/app/containers/Login.jsx
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+++ b/app/containers/Login.jsx
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+import React from "react";
+
+import styles from "./Login.css";
+
+export default class Login extends React.Component {
+  render() {
+    return <div>
+      <h1>This is a login component</h1>
+    </div>
+  }
+}
+
diff --git a/app/redux/store.js b/app/redux/store.js
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+++ b/app/redux/store.js
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+import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from 'redux';
+
+//TODO: implement middleware for async actions
+// import createMiddleware from './middleware/clientMiddleware';
+
+export default function createApiClientStore(client, data) {
+  const middleware = createMiddleware(client);
+  let finalCreateStore;
+  if (__DEVELOPMENT__ && __CLIENT__ && __DEVTOOLS__) {
+      const { devTools, persistState } = require('redux-devtools');
+     finalCreateStore = compose(
+           applyMiddleware(middleware),
+           devTools(),
+           persistState(window.location.href.match(/[?&]debug_session=([^&]+)\b/))
+         )(createStore);
+   } else {
+       finalCreateStore = applyMiddleware(middleware)(createStore);
+     }
+
+  const reducer = require('./modules/reducer');
+  const store = finalCreateStore(reducer, data);
+  store.client = client;
+
+  if (__DEVELOPMENT__ && module.hot) {
+      module.hot.accept('./modules/reducer', () => {
+            store.replaceReducer(require('./modules/reducer'));
+          });
+    }
+
+  return store;
+}
diff --git a/app/route-handlers/Application.jsx b/app/route-handlers/Application.jsx
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+++ b/app/route-handlers/Application.jsx
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+import Application from "containers/Application";
+
+//TODO: eventually we will want to connect to store using react-redux;
+// export default connect(mapStateToProps)(Application)
+
+export default Application;
+
diff --git a/app/route-handlers/Login.jsx b/app/route-handlers/Login.jsx
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+++ b/app/route-handlers/Login.jsx
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+import Login from "containers/Login";
+
+//TODO: eventually we will want to connect to store using react-redux;
+// export default connect(mapStateToProps)(Application)
+
+export default Login;
diff --git a/app/routes.jsx b/app/routes.jsx
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+++ b/app/routes.jsx
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+import React from "react";
+import { Route } from "react-router";
+
+import Application from "route-handlers/Application";
+import Login from "route-handlers/Login";
+
+//TODO: research necessity of Object.assign polyfill
+
+//TODO: switch to es6 export
+
+module.exports = (
+  <Route name="app" path="/" component={ Application }>
+    <Route name="login" path="login" component={ Login }/>
+  </Route>
+)
diff --git a/config/loadersByExtension.js b/config/loadersByExtension.js
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+++ b/config/loadersByExtension.js
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+function extsToRegExp(exts) {
+  return new RegExp("\\.(" + exts.map(function(ext) {
+    return ext.replace(/\./g, "\\.");
+  }).join("|") + ")(\\?.*)?$");
+}
+
+module.exports = function loadersByExtension(obj) {
+  var loaders = [];
+  Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(key) {
+    var exts = key.split("|");
+    var value = obj[key];
+    var entry = {
+      extensions: exts,
+      test: extsToRegExp(exts)
+    };
+    if(Array.isArray(value)) {
+      entry.loaders = value;
+    } else if(typeof value === "string") {
+      entry.loader = value;
+    } else {
+      Object.keys(value).forEach(function(valueKey) {
+        entry[valueKey] = value[valueKey];
+      });
+    }
+    loaders.push(entry);
+  });
+  return loaders;
+};
diff --git a/config/mainRenderer.jsx b/config/mainRenderer.jsx
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+++ b/config/mainRenderer.jsx
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+
+import React from "react";
+import { Router } from "react-router";
+import routes from "../app/routes";
+
+
+//TODO: will need to wrap in redux provider element
+React.render((
+  <Router>
+    { routes }
+  </Router>
+), document.getElementById("content"));
+
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
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+++ b/index.html
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+      <meta charset="utf-8">
+  </head>
+  <body>
+      <div id="content"></div>
+      <script src="http://localhost:2992/_assets/main.js"></script>
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/make-webpack-config.js b/make-webpack-config.js
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+++ b/make-webpack-config.js
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+var path = require("path");
+var webpack = require("webpack");
+var ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");
+var StatsPlugin = require("stats-webpack-plugin");
+
+
+var loadersByExtension = require("./config/loadersByExtension");
+
+module.exports = function(options) {
+  var entry = {
+    main: "./config/mainRenderer"
+  };
+  var loaders = {
+    "jsx": options.hotComponents ? ["react-hot-loader", "babel-loader?stage=0"] : "babel-loader?stage=0",
+    "js": {
+      loader: "babel-loader?stage=0",
+      include: path.join(__dirname, "app")
+    },
+    "json": "json-loader",
+    "json5": "json5-loader",
+    "txt": "raw-loader",
+    "png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg": "url-loader?limit=10000",
+    "woff|woff2": "url-loader?limit=100000",
+    "ttf|eot": "file-loader",
+    "wav|mp3": "file-loader",
+    "html": "html-loader",
+    "md|markdown": ["html-loader", "markdown-loader"]
+  };
+  var cssLoader = options.minimize ? "css-loader?module" : "css-loader?module&localIdentName=[path][name]---[local]---[hash:base64:5]";
+  var stylesheetLoaders = {
+    "css": cssLoader,
+    "less": [cssLoader, "less-loader"],
+    "styl": [cssLoader, "stylus-loader"],
+    "scss|sass": [cssLoader, "sass-loader"]
+  };
+  var additionalLoaders = [
+    // { test: /some-reg-exp$/, loader: "any-loader" }
+  ];
+
+  var modulesDirectories = [ "node_modules" ];
+  var extensions = ["", ".web.js", ".js", ".jsx"];
+
+  var root = path.join(__dirname, "app");
+  var publicPath = options.devServer ?
+    "http://localhost:2992/_assets/" :
+    "/_assets/";
+  var output = {
+    path: path.join(__dirname, "build", "public"),
+    publicPath: publicPath,
+    filename: "[name].js" + (options.longTermCaching ? "?[chunkhash]" : ""),
+    chunkFilename: (options.devServer ? "[id].js" : "[name].js") + (options.longTermCaching ? "?[chunkhash]" : ""),
+    sourceMapFilename: "debugging/[file].map",
+    pathinfo: options.debug
+  };
+
+  var excludeFromStats = [
+    /node_modules[\\\/]react(-router)?[\\\/]/
+  ];
+
+  var plugins = [
+    new webpack.PrefetchPlugin("react"),
+    new webpack.PrefetchPlugin("react/lib/ReactComponentBrowserEnvironment"),
+    new StatsPlugin(path.join(__dirname, "build", "stats.json"), {
+      chunkModules: true,
+      exclude: excludeFromStats
+    })
+  ];
+
+  if (options.commonsChunk) {
+    //TODO: investigate necesit of this, do i need commons entry?
+    plugins.push(new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin(
+      "commons", "commons.js" + (options.longTermCaching ? "?[chunkhash]" : "")));
+  }
+
+  Object.keys(stylesheetLoaders).forEach(function(ext) {
+    var stylesheetLoader = stylesheetLoaders[ext];
+    if(Array.isArray(stylesheetLoader)) stylesheetLoader = stylesheetLoader.join("!");
+    if(options.separateStylesheet) {
+      stylesheetLoaders[ext] = ExtractTextPlugin.extract("style-loader", stylesheetLoader);
+    } else {
+      stylesheetLoaders[ext] = "style-loader!" + stylesheetLoader;
+    }
+  });
+
+  if(options.separateStylesheet) {
+    plugins.push(new ExtractTextPlugin("[name].css" + (options.longTermCaching ? "?[contenthash]" : "")));
+  }
+
+  //TODO this doesn't seem to be minfiying
+  if(options.minimize) {
+    plugins.push(
+      new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
+        compressor: {
+          warnings: false
+        }
+      }),
+      new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
+      new webpack.DefinePlugin({
+        "process.env": {
+          NODE_ENV: JSON.stringify("production")
+        }
+      }),
+      new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin()
+    );
+  }
+
+  return {
+    entry: entry,
+    output: output,
+    module: {
+      loaders: loadersByExtension(loaders).concat(loadersByExtension(stylesheetLoaders)).concat(additionalLoaders)
+    },
+    debug: options.debug,
+    resolveLoader: {
+      root: path.join(__dirname, "node_modules")
+    },
+    resolve: {
+      root: root,
+      modulesDirectories: modulesDirectories,
+      extensions: extensions
+    },
+    plugins: plugins,
+    devServer: {
+      stats: {
+        cached: false,
+        exclude: excludeFromStats
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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+++ b/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "console",
+  "version": "0.0.0",
+  "description": "Coroner web client.",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
+    "dev-server": "webpack-dev-server --config webpack-dev-server.config.js --progress --colors --port 2992 --inline",
+    "hot-dev-server": "webpack-dev-server --config webpack-hot-dev-server.config.js --hot --progress --colors --port 2992 --inline",
+    "build": "webpack --config webpack-production.config.js --progress --profile --colors"
+  },
+  "author": "Matt Marcelo",
+  "license": "ISC",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "babel-core": "^5.8.25",
+    "babel-loader": "^5.3.2",
+    "css-loader": "^0.19.0",
+    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "^0.8.2",
+    "file-loader": "^0.8.4",
+    "html-loader": "^0.3.0",
+    "json-loader": "^0.5.3",
+    "json5": "^0.4.0",
+    "json5-loader": "^0.6.0",
+    "less": "^2.5.1",
+    "less-loader": "^2.2.1",
+    "markdown-loader": "^0.1.7",
+    "node-sass": "^3.3.3",
+    "raw-loader": "^0.5.1",
+    "react": "^0.13.3",
+    "react-hot-loader": "^1.3.0",
+    "react-router": "^1.0.0-rc1",
+    "redux": "^3.0.0",
+    "sass-loader": "^2.0.1",
+    "stats-webpack-plugin": "^0.2.1",
+    "style-loader": "^0.12.4",
+    "stylus-loader": "^1.3.0",
+    "url-loader": "^0.5.6",
+    "webpack": "^1.12.2"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/webpack-dev-server.config.js b/webpack-dev-server.config.js
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+++ b/webpack-dev-server.config.js
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+module.exports = require("./make-webpack-config")({
+  devServer: true,
+  debug: true
+})
diff --git a/webpack-production.config.js b/webpack-production.config.js
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/webpack-production.config.js
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+module.exports = require("./make-webpack-config")({
+  longTermCaching: true,
+  seperateStylesheet: true,
+  minimize: true
+})