Q:

Why does Webpack Task Runner for Visual Studio not allow multiple output files? 

I am using Visual Studio 2017 with the Webpack Runner extension installed.  I have the following TS files:

/Scripts/TypeA/A.ts
/Scripts/TypeB/B.ts

And would like to transpile them to the following:

Scripts/TypeA/A_transpiled.js
Scripts/TypeB/B_transpiled.js

There is no "clean" way of doing that!  

Following the "multi-compiler" code example, defining multiple export seems to be supported in Webpack: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/tree/master/examples/multi-compiler.  However, this does not work in VS 2017.  I get the following error:

Invalid configuration object.  Webpack has been initialised using a configuration object that does not match the API schema

I can use the "name" parameter as shown here: 
output: {
   filename: '[name].js',
   path: path.resolve(__dirname, './Scripts/')
}

but it would still create all files in the same folder (Scripts).  

The best, but hacky way of doing this was to make the entire path a part of the entry name as shown here:
entry: {
   'Scripts/TypeA/A_transpiled': './Scripts/TypeA/A.ts',
   'Scripts/TypeB/B_transpiled': './Scripts/TypeB/B.ts'
},
output: {
   filename: '[name].js',
   path: path.resolve(__dirname, '')
}

This would create the files in the correct location.  However, this has other drawbacks.  For example, exporting and using your ts files as a library would then require you to use the entire path (if you use the "name" parameter as the library name), which could get cumbersome.  
This seems like a huge drawback/missing functionality.  Am I missing something, or did I do something wrong when using the "multi-compiler" approach?  Why is something this simple not implemented in Webpack Task Runner?  Should I consider getting rid of Webpack altogether and just rely on Gulp or Grunt? 

A:

I re-installed webpack using npm so that I have the latest version of webpack (3.11.0).  I was able to the "multi-compiler" approach listed in this link:
https://github.com/webpack/webpack/tree/master/examples/multi-compiler

