Would I like to load preferably the node packages, and only if not exist, loads the bower package.
I would just use the node package only as recommend
Ok, tried your project from git https://github.com/Ridermansb/webpackBowerStarter
And as mentioned at https://github.com/lpiepiora/bower-webpack-plugin/issues/20 I too had that Cannot resolve module 'stamplay-js-sdk'
issue , then in webpackBowerStarter directory I did bower install stamplay-js-sdk
then sudo npm run build
and voila! It was done.
On npm run start
which is same as webpack-dev-server -d --watch
I get http://localhost:8080/webpack-dev-server/ like
And console says
sry if u meant something else. Does this resolves your issue ?