diff --git a/lib/core/src/server/dev-server.js b/lib/core/src/server/dev-server.js
index 0280ed77fa7..4a3f382c73a 100644
--- a/lib/core/src/server/dev-server.js
+++ b/lib/core/src/server/dev-server.js
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ export default async function(options) {
         response.set('Content-Type', 'text/javascript');
         response.sendFile(path.join(`${dllPath}/${request.params[0]}`));
       });
+      router.get(/\/sb_dll\/(.+\.LICENCE)$/, (request, response) => {
+        response.set('Content-Type', 'text/html');
+        response.sendFile(path.join(`${dllPath}/${request.params[0]}`));
+      });
       router.get(/(.+\.js)$/, (request, response) => {
         response.set('Content-Type', 'text/javascript');
         response.sendFile(path.join(`${outputDir}/${request.params[0]}`));
diff --git a/lib/ui/scripts/config.js b/lib/ui/scripts/config.js
index fe546f3feff..9ac662ee17b 100644
--- a/lib/ui/scripts/config.js
+++ b/lib/ui/scripts/config.js
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import path from 'path';
 import webpack from 'webpack';
+// eslint-disable-next-line import/no-extraneous-dependencies
+import UglifyJsPlugin from 'uglifyjs-webpack-plugin';
 
 const resolveLocal = dir => path.join(__dirname, dir);
 
 const r = resolveLocal('../../../node_modules');
-
 const out = resolveLocal('../../core/dll');
+
 export default ({ entry, provided = [] }) => ({
   name: 'storybook-ui',
   mode: 'production',
@@ -27,7 +29,14 @@ export default ({ entry, provided = [] }) => ({
             loader: 'babel-loader',
             options: {
               presets: [
-                ['@babel/preset-env', { shippedProposals: true, modules: false }],
+                [
+                  '@babel/preset-env',
+                  {
+                    shippedProposals: true,
+                    modules: false,
+                    targets: '> 0.25%, not dead',
+                  },
+                ],
                 '@babel/preset-react',
                 '@babel/preset-flow',
               ],
@@ -43,12 +52,27 @@ export default ({ entry, provided = [] }) => ({
   },
 
   plugins: [
+    new webpack.ProgressPlugin(),
     new webpack.DllPlugin({
       context: r,
       path: `${out}/[name]-manifest.json`,
       name: '[name]_dll',
     }),
   ],
+  optimization: {
+    concatenateModules: true,
+    portableRecords: true,
+    moduleIds: 'hashed',
+    minimizer: [
+      new UglifyJsPlugin({
+        extractComments: {
+          condition: /^\**!|@preserve|@license|@cc_on/i,
+          filename: file => file.replace('.js', '.LICENCE'),
+          banner: licenseFile => `License information can be found in ${licenseFile}`,
+        },
+      }),
+    ],
+  },
   performance: {
     hints: false,
   },
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c89da686ce6..d19dc9d83e7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@
     "babel-eslint": "^10.0.1",
     "babel-jest": "^23.6.0",
     "babel-loader": "^8.0.4",
+    "babel-plugin-dynamic-import-node": "^2.2.0",
     "babel-plugin-emotion": "^9.2.11",
     "babel-plugin-macros": "^2.4.2",
     "babel-plugin-require-context-hook": "^1.0.0",
-    "babel-plugin-dynamic-import-node": "^2.2.0",
     "babel-preset-vue": "^2.0.2",
     "chalk": "^2.4.1",
     "codecov": "^3.1.0",
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@
     "tslint": "~5.11.0",
     "tslint-config-prettier": "^1.15.0",
     "tslint-plugin-prettier": "^2.0.1",
-    "typescript": "^3.1.6"
+    "typescript": "^3.1.6",
+    "uglifyjs-webpack-plugin": "^2.0.1"
   },
   "husky": {
     "hooks": {
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index a00f6f066ab..c48a214cd08 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -5967,6 +5967,26 @@ cacache@^11.0.1, cacache@^11.0.2:
     unique-filename "^1.1.0"
     y18n "^4.0.0"
 
+cacache@^11.2.0:
+  version "11.3.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/cacache/-/cacache-11.3.1.tgz#d09d25f6c4aca7a6d305d141ae332613aa1d515f"
+  integrity sha512-2PEw4cRRDu+iQvBTTuttQifacYjLPhET+SYO/gEFMy8uhi+jlJREDAjSF5FWSdV/Aw5h18caHA7vMTw2c+wDzA==
+  dependencies:
+    bluebird "^3.5.1"
+    chownr "^1.0.1"
+    figgy-pudding "^3.1.0"
+    glob "^7.1.2"
+    graceful-fs "^4.1.11"
+    lru-cache "^4.1.3"
+    mississippi "^3.0.0"
+    mkdirp "^0.5.1"
+    move-concurrently "^1.0.1"
+    promise-inflight "^1.0.1"
+    rimraf "^2.6.2"
+    ssri "^6.0.0"
+    unique-filename "^1.1.0"
+    y18n "^4.0.0"
+
 cache-base@^1.0.1:
   version "1.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/cache-base/-/cache-base-1.0.1.tgz#0a7f46416831c8b662ee36fe4e7c59d76f666ab2"
@@ -22264,7 +22284,7 @@ uglify-es@^3.1.9, uglify-es@^3.3.4:
     commander "~2.13.0"
     source-map "~0.6.1"
 
-uglify-js@3.4.x, uglify-js@^3.1.4, uglify-js@^3.4.0:
+uglify-js@3.4.x, uglify-js@^3.0.0, uglify-js@^3.1.4, uglify-js@^3.4.0:
   version "3.4.9"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-3.4.9.tgz#af02f180c1207d76432e473ed24a28f4a782bae3"
   integrity sha512-8CJsbKOtEbnJsTyv6LE6m6ZKniqMiFWmm9sRbopbkGs3gMPPfd3Fh8iIA4Ykv5MgaTbqHr4BaoGLJLZNhsrW1Q==
@@ -22286,6 +22306,20 @@ uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@^1.2.4:
     webpack-sources "^1.1.0"
     worker-farm "^1.5.2"
 
+uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@^2.0.1:
+  version "2.0.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uglifyjs-webpack-plugin/-/uglifyjs-webpack-plugin-2.0.1.tgz#f346af53ed496ce72fef462517d417f62bec3010"
+  integrity sha512-1HhCHkOB6wRCcv7htcz1QRPVbWPEY074RP9vzt/X0LF4xXm9l4YGd0qja7z88abDixQlnVwBjXsTBs+Xsn/eeQ==
+  dependencies:
+    cacache "^11.2.0"
+    find-cache-dir "^2.0.0"
+    schema-utils "^1.0.0"
+    serialize-javascript "^1.4.0"
+    source-map "^0.6.1"
+    uglify-js "^3.0.0"
+    webpack-sources "^1.1.0"
+    worker-farm "^1.5.2"
+
 uid-number@0.0.6:
   version "0.0.6"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uid-number/-/uid-number-0.0.6.tgz#0ea10e8035e8eb5b8e4449f06da1c730663baa81"