diff --git a/config/paths.js b/config/paths.js
index 7645917fbc..4db5873d29 100644
--- a/config/paths.js
+++ b/config/paths.js
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ if (isInCreateReactAppSource) {
     appHtml: resolveOwn('../template/index.html'),
     appFavicon: resolveOwn('../template/favicon.ico'),
     appPackageJson: resolveOwn('../package.json'),
+    appStatic: resolveOwn('../template/static'),
     appSrc: resolveOwn('../template/src'),
     appNodeModules: resolveOwn('../node_modules'),
     ownNodeModules: resolveOwn('../node_modules')
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ if (isInCreateReactAppSource) {
     appHtml: resolveApp('index.html'),
     appFavicon: resolveApp('favicon.ico'),
     appPackageJson: resolveApp('package.json'),
+    appStatic: resolveApp('static'),
     appSrc: resolveApp('src'),
     appNodeModules: resolveApp('node_modules'),
     // this is empty with npm3 but node resolution searches higher anyway:
@@ -61,6 +63,7 @@ if (isInCreateReactAppSource) {
     appHtml: resolveApp('index.html'),
     appFavicon: resolveApp('favicon.ico'),
     appPackageJson: resolveApp('package.json'),
+    appStatic: resolveApp('static'),
     appSrc: resolveApp('src'),
     appNodeModules: resolveApp('node_modules'),
     ownNodeModules: resolveApp('node_modules')
diff --git a/config/webpack.config.dev.js b/config/webpack.config.dev.js
index a3db11f8ec..f84cd736b6 100644
--- a/config/webpack.config.dev.js
+++ b/config/webpack.config.dev.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ var webpack = require('webpack');
 var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
 var CaseSensitivePathsPlugin = require('case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin');
 var WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin = require('../scripts/utils/WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin');
+var CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
 var paths = require('./paths');
 var env = require('./env');
 
@@ -170,6 +171,10 @@ module.exports = {
       template: paths.appHtml,
       favicon: paths.appFavicon,
     }),
+    // Copy the static folder as-is to the build folder
+    new CopyWebpackPlugin([
+      { from: paths.appStatic, to: 'static' }
+    ]),
     // Makes some environment variables available to the JS code, for example:
     // if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') { ... }. See `env.js`.
     new webpack.DefinePlugin(env),
diff --git a/config/webpack.config.prod.js b/config/webpack.config.prod.js
index 2a3b1a8186..e0f010a2e0 100644
--- a/config/webpack.config.prod.js
+++ b/config/webpack.config.prod.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ var path = require('path');
 var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
 var webpack = require('webpack');
 var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
+var CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
 var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
 var url = require('url');
 var paths = require('./paths');
@@ -203,6 +204,10 @@ module.exports = {
     new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
     // Try to dedupe duplicated modules, if any:
     new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
+    // Copy the static folder as-is to the build folder
+    new CopyWebpackPlugin([
+      { from: paths.appStatic, to: 'static' }
+    ]),
     // Minify the code.
     new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
       compress: {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bf3d853af2..8640effb0b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
     "case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin": "1.1.2",
     "chalk": "1.1.3",
     "connect-history-api-fallback": "1.2.0",
+    "copy-webpack-plugin": "3.0.1",
     "cross-spawn": "4.0.0",
     "css-loader": "0.23.1",
     "detect-port": "1.0.0",