diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
index 253bc34f062..4d5f6b0893a 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@
 const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
 const path = require('path');
 const webpack = require('webpack');
+const defaults = require('lodash.defaults');
 const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
 const CaseSensitivePathsPlugin = require('case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin');
 const InterpolateHtmlPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/InterpolateHtmlPlugin');
 const WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin');
+const AutoDllPlugin = require('autodll-webpack-plugin');
 const eslintFormatter = require('react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter');
 const ModuleScopePlugin = require('react-dev-utils/ModuleScopePlugin');
 const getClientEnvironment = require('./env');
@@ -31,6 +33,8 @@ const publicPath = '/';
 const publicUrl = '';
 // Get environment variables to inject into our app.
 const env = getClientEnvironment(publicUrl);
+// Read the dll configuration from package.json
+const dllConfig = require(paths.appPackageJson).dll || { entry: {} };
 
 // This is the development configuration.
 // It is focused on developer experience and fast rebuilds.
@@ -252,6 +256,15 @@ module.exports = {
       inject: true,
       template: paths.appHtml,
     }),
+    new AutoDllPlugin({
+      context: paths.appPath,
+      path: './dll',
+      filename: '[name].js',
+      inject: true,
+      entry: defaults(dllConfig.entry, {
+        polyfills: [require.resolve('./polyfills')],
+      }),
+    }),
     // Add module names to factory functions so they appear in browser profiler.
     new webpack.NamedModulesPlugin(),
     // Makes some environment variables available to the JS code, for example:
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index d0eddad69e5..2e0752854a7 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "2.1.2",
     "file-loader": "0.11.2",
     "fs-extra": "3.0.1",
+    "html-webpack-plugin": "2.28.0",
+    "jest": "20.0.3",
     "html-webpack-plugin": "2.29.0",
     "jest": "20.0.4",
     "object-assign": "4.1.1",
@@ -56,7 +58,9 @@
     "webpack": "2.6.1",
     "webpack-dev-server": "2.5.0",
     "webpack-manifest-plugin": "1.1.0",
-    "whatwg-fetch": "2.0.3"
+    "whatwg-fetch": "2.0.3",
+    "lodash.defaults": "^4.2.0",
+    "autodll-webpack-plugin": "^0.2.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "react": "^15.5.4",