Webpack-dev-server does not place bundle in dist

You can look to the generated URLs by webpack-dev-server into this URL.

http://localhost:8080/webpack-dev-server (change host and port as needed)

webpack-dev-server is not going to write the files into disk, but you can see them there.

dev server have the option writeToDisk

module.exports = { //... devServer: { writeToDisk: true } };

check this : https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/#devserverwritetodisk-

webpack-dev-server serves from memory. If you want to see the files on disk during development with webpack-dev-server, you'll need to run a standard webpack build concurrently. See this answer for details.