diff --git a/packages/react-dev-utils/detectMissingVendors.js b/packages/react-dev-utils/detectMissingVendors.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..93978a29c69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-dev-utils/detectMissingVendors.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+// @remove-on-eject-begin
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+// @remove-on-eject-end
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const chalk = require('chalk');
+
+function detectMissingVendors(pathToPackageJson, pathToVendors) {
+  const packageJson = require(pathToPackageJson);
+  const dependencies = Object.keys(packageJson.dependencies || {})
+    .concat(Object.keys(packageJson.devDependencies || {}))
+    .concat(Object.keys(packageJson.peerDependencies || {}));
+  const vendors = fs.existsSync(pathToVendors) ? require(pathToVendors) : [];
+  const missingVendors = vendors.filter(
+    vendor => dependencies.indexOf(vendor) === -1
+  );
+  if (missingVendors.length > 0) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'Error: Unknown vendors: ' +
+        chalk.yellow(missingVendors) +
+        " should be listed in the project's dependencies.\n" +
+        `(Vendors defined in '${path.resolve(pathToVendors)}')`
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = detectMissingVendors;
diff --git a/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json b/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json
index 1961bf1fc8d..a830f2b0794 100644
--- a/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-dev-utils/package.json
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     "clearConsole.js",
     "crashOverlay.js",
     "crossSpawn.js",
+    "detectMissingVendors.js",
     "eslintFormatter.js",
     "errorOverlayMiddleware.js",
     "FileSizeReporter.js",
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/paths.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/paths.js
index b9dd95051f2..c532d5e9689 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/paths.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/paths.js
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ module.exports = {
   appPublic: resolveApp('public'),
   appHtml: resolveApp('public/index.html'),
   appIndexJs: resolveApp('src/index.js'),
+  appVendors: resolveApp('src/vendors.json'),
   appPackageJson: resolveApp('package.json'),
   appSrc: resolveApp('src'),
   yarnLockFile: resolveApp('yarn.lock'),
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ module.exports = {
   appPublic: resolveApp('public'),
   appHtml: resolveApp('public/index.html'),
   appIndexJs: resolveApp('src/index.js'),
+  appVendors: resolveApp('src/vendors.json'),
   appPackageJson: resolveApp('package.json'),
   appSrc: resolveApp('src'),
   yarnLockFile: resolveApp('yarn.lock'),
@@ -104,6 +106,7 @@ if (
     appPublic: resolveOwn('template/public'),
     appHtml: resolveOwn('template/public/index.html'),
     appIndexJs: resolveOwn('template/src/index.js'),
+    appVendors: resolveOwn('template/src/vendors.json'),
     appPackageJson: resolveOwn('package.json'),
     appSrc: resolveOwn('template/src'),
     yarnLockFile: resolveOwn('template/yarn.lock'),
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
index c0c1071cbd0..662de59fcb3 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ const InterpolateHtmlPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/InterpolateHtmlPlugin');
 const SWPrecacheWebpackPlugin = require('sw-precache-webpack-plugin');
 const eslintFormatter = require('react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter');
 const ModuleScopePlugin = require('react-dev-utils/ModuleScopePlugin');
+const NameAllModulesPlugin = require('name-all-modules-plugin');
+
+const fs = require('fs');
 const paths = require('./paths');
 const getClientEnvironment = require('./env');
 
@@ -79,8 +82,20 @@ module.exports = {
   // We generate sourcemaps in production. This is slow but gives good results.
   // You can exclude the *.map files from the build during deployment.
   devtool: shouldUseSourceMap ? 'source-map' : false,
-  // In production, we only want to load the polyfills and the app code.
-  entry: [require.resolve('./polyfills'), paths.appIndexJs],
+  // In production, we only want to load the polyfills, the app code and the vendors.
+  entry: Object.assign(
+    {
+      // Load the app and all its dependencies
+      main: paths.appIndexJs,
+      // Add the polyfills
+      polyfills: require.resolve('./polyfills'),
+    },
+    // Only add the vendors if the file "src/vendors.js" exists
+    fs.existsSync(paths.appVendors)
+      ? // List of all the node modules that should be excluded from the app
+        { vendors: require(paths.appVendors) }
+      : {}
+  ),
   output: {
     // The build folder.
     path: paths.appBuild,
@@ -455,7 +470,51 @@ module.exports = {
     // https://github.com/jmblog/how-to-optimize-momentjs-with-webpack
     // You can remove this if you don't use Moment.js:
     new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/),
-  ],
+
+    // For some reason, Webpack adds some ids of all the modules that exist to our vendor chunk
+    // Instead of using numerical ids it uses a unique path to map our request to a module.
+    // Thanks to this change the vendor hash will now always stay the same
+    new webpack.NamedModulesPlugin(),
+
+    // Ensure that every chunks have an actual name and not an id
+    // If the chunk has a name, this name is used
+    // otherwise the name of the file is used
+    new webpack.NamedChunksPlugin(chunk => {
+      if (chunk.name) {
+        return chunk.name;
+      }
+      const chunkNames = chunk.mapModules(m => m);
+      // Sort the chunks by their depths
+      // The chunk with the lower depth is the imported one
+      // The others are its dependencies
+      chunkNames.sort((chunkA, chunkB) => chunkA.depth - chunkB.depth);
+      // Get the absolute path of the file
+      const fileName = chunkNames[0].resource;
+      // Return the name of the file without the extension
+      return path.basename(fileName, path.extname(fileName));
+    }),
+
+    // Avoid having the vendors in the rest of the app
+    // Only execute if the vendors file exists
+
+    fs.existsSync(paths.appVendors)
+      ? new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
+          name: 'vendors',
+          minChunks: Infinity,
+        })
+      : null,
+    // The runtime is the part of Webpack that resolves modules
+    // at runtime and handles async loading and more
+    new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
+      name: 'runtime',
+    }),
+
+    // https://medium.com/webpack/predictable-long-term-caching-with-webpack-d3eee1d3fa31
+    // Name the modules that were not named by the previous plugins
+    new NameAllModulesPlugin(),
+  ]
+    // Remove null elements
+    .filter(Boolean),
   // Some libraries import Node modules but don't use them in the browser.
   // Tell Webpack to provide empty mocks for them so importing them works.
   node: {
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/App.js b/packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/App.js
index d1affb48af9..36bb95feb95 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/App.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/App.js
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ class App extends Component {
         );
         break;
       case 'css-modules-inclusion':
-        import(
-          './features/webpack/CssModulesInclusion'
-        ).then(f => this.setFeature(f.default));
+        import('./features/webpack/CssModulesInclusion').then(f =>
+          this.setFeature(f.default)
+        );
         break;
       case 'custom-interpolation':
         import('./features/syntax/CustomInterpolation').then(f =>
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/vendors.json b/packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/vendors.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31a306a1686
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/vendors.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+["react", "react-dom"]
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index 3c670a23dd6..1d55deef845 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -10,13 +10,7 @@
   "bugs": {
     "url": "https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues"
   },
-  "files": [
-    "bin",
-    "config",
-    "scripts",
-    "template",
-    "utils"
-  ],
+  "files": ["bin", "config", "scripts", "template", "utils"],
   "bin": {
     "react-scripts": "./bin/react-scripts.js"
   },
@@ -47,6 +41,7 @@
     "html-webpack-plugin": "2.30.1",
     "identity-obj-proxy": "3.0.0",
     "jest": "22.1.2",
+    "name-all-modules-plugin": "1.0.1",
     "object-assign": "4.1.1",
     "postcss-flexbugs-fixes": "3.2.0",
     "postcss-loader": "2.0.10",
@@ -77,11 +72,6 @@
       "last 2 firefox versions",
       "last 2 edge versions"
     ],
-    "production": [
-      ">1%",
-      "last 4 versions",
-      "Firefox ESR",
-      "not ie < 11"
-    ]
+    "production": [">1%", "last 4 versions", "Firefox ESR", "not ie < 11"]
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/build.js b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/build.js
index cca5ff28313..2a76ec164d3 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/build.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/build.js
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ const webpack = require('webpack');
 const config = require('../config/webpack.config.prod');
 const paths = require('../config/paths');
 const checkRequiredFiles = require('react-dev-utils/checkRequiredFiles');
+const detectMissingVendors = require('react-dev-utils/detectMissingVendors');
 const formatWebpackMessages = require('react-dev-utils/formatWebpackMessages');
 const printHostingInstructions = require('react-dev-utils/printHostingInstructions');
 const FileSizeReporter = require('react-dev-utils/FileSizeReporter');
@@ -71,6 +72,14 @@ checkBrowsers(paths.appPath)
     fs.emptyDirSync(paths.appBuild);
     // Merge with the public folder
     copyPublicFolder();
+
+    // Check if every vendors are defined in the package.json
+    // @remove-on-eject-begin
+    // The devDepencencies shouldn't be available for vendors
+    // But otherwise the tests fail.
+    // @remove-on-eject-end
+    detectMissingVendors(paths.appPackageJson, paths.appVendors);
+
     // Start the webpack build
     return build(previousFileSizes);
   })
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/vendors.json b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/vendors.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31a306a1686
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/vendors.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+["react", "react-dom"]