Consider using CleanPlugin

[alexilyaev]

Right now Kick removes the dist folder before each run of kick bundle.

I think we should move the responsibility of this task to Webpack.
We should try to minimize the amount of dependency on Kick if it's simple to implement.

Ideally, I could use kick as a boilerplate generator only if I wanted to (that's the most simple entry point for most devs).

var CleanPlugin = require('clean-webpack-plugin');

...

if (appEnv === 'production') {
  config.plugins.push(
    // Remove build related folders
    new CleanPlugin(['dist'])
  );
}

Ref:
https://github.com/johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin

[alexilyaev]

For some reason CleanPlugin didn't work for me on Windows.
So I used fs-extra:

var fse  = require('fs-extra');

if (appEnv === 'production') {
  // Remove build related folders
  fse.removeSync(distPath);
}