diff --git a/src/AureliaDependenciesPlugin.ts b/src/AureliaDependenciesPlugin.ts
index a838fdd..930b6b0 100644
--- a/src/AureliaDependenciesPlugin.ts
+++ b/src/AureliaDependenciesPlugin.ts
@@ -46,10 +46,13 @@ class ParserPlugin {
     // This covers commonjs modules, for example:
     //    const _aureliaPal = require("aurelia-pal");
     //    _aureliaPal.PLATFORM.moduleName("id");    
+    // Or (note: no renaming supported):
+    //    const PLATFORM = require("aurelia-pal").PLATFORM;
+    //    PLATFORM.moduleName("id");
     parser.plugin("evaluate MemberExpression", (expr: Webpack.MemberExpression) => {
       if (expr.property.name === "moduleName" &&
-          expr.object.type === "MemberExpression" && 
-          expr.object.property.name === "PLATFORM") {
+         (expr.object.type === "MemberExpression" && expr.object.property.name === "PLATFORM" ||
+          expr.object.type === "Identifier" && expr.object.name === "PLATFORM")) {
         return new BasicEvaluatedExpression().setIdentifier("PLATFORM.moduleName").setRange(expr.range);
       }
       return undefined;
diff --git a/src/AureliaPlugin.ts b/src/AureliaPlugin.ts
index 5fea129..1224822 100644
--- a/src/AureliaPlugin.ts
+++ b/src/AureliaPlugin.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export interface Options {
   dist: string;
   entry?: string | string[];
   features: {
+    ie?: boolean;
     svg?: boolean;
     unparser?: boolean;
     polyfills?: Polyfills;
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ export class AureliaPlugin {
     options);
 
     this.options.features = Object.assign({
+      ie: true,
       svg: true,
       unparser: true,
       polyfills: <"es2015">"es2015",
@@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ export class AureliaPlugin {
     const defines: any = {
       AURELIA_WEBPACK_2_0: "true"
     };
+    if (!features.ie) defines.FEATURE_NO_IE = "true";
     if (!features.svg) defines.FEATURE_NO_SVG = "true";
     if (!features.unparser) defines.FEATURE_NO_UNPARSER = "true";
     definePolyfills(defines, features.polyfills!);
@@ -157,13 +160,15 @@ export class AureliaPlugin {
     if (!dllPlugin && !opts.noWebpackLoader) {
       // Setup aurelia-loader-webpack as the module loader
       // Note that code inside aurelia-loader-webpack performs PLATFORM.Loader = WebpackLoader;
-      this.addEntry(compiler.options, "aurelia-loader-webpack");      
+      // Since this runs very early, before any other Aurelia code, we need "aurelia-polyfills"
+      // for older platforms (e.g. `Map` is undefined in IE 10-).
+      this.addEntry(compiler.options, ["aurelia-polyfills", "aurelia-loader-webpack"]);      
     }
 
     if (!opts.noHtmlLoader) {
       // Ensure that we trace HTML dependencies (always required because of 3rd party libs)
       let module = compiler.options.module;
-      let rules = module.rules || (module.rules = []);
+      let rules = module.rules || module.loaders || (module.rules = []);
       // Note that this loader will be in last place, which is important 
       // because it will process the file first, before any other loader.
       rules.push({ test: /\.html?$/i, use: "aurelia-webpack-plugin/html-requires-loader" });
@@ -200,9 +205,9 @@ export class AureliaPlugin {
     );
   }
 
-  addEntry(options: Webpack.Options, module: string) {
+  addEntry(options: Webpack.Options, modules: string|string[]) {
     let webpackEntry = options.entry;
-    let entries = [module];
+    let entries = Array.isArray(modules) ? modules : [modules];
     if (typeof webpackEntry == "object" && !Array.isArray(webpackEntry)) {
       // There are multiple entries defined in the config
       // Unless there was a particular configuration, we modify the first one
diff --git a/src/SubFolderPlugin.ts b/src/SubFolderPlugin.ts
index fdd87a5..3d3de16 100644
--- a/src/SubFolderPlugin.ts
+++ b/src/SubFolderPlugin.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ export class SubFolderPlugin {
       // Only look for request not starting with a dot (module names)
       // and followed by a path (slash). Support @scoped/modules.
       let match = /^(?!\.)((?:@[^/]+\/)?[^/]+)(\/.*)$/i.exec(request.request);
-      if (!match || request.context[subFolderTrial]) { cb(); return; }
+      // Fix: it seems that under some error conditions `request.context` might end up being null.
+      //      this is bad but to help users find relevant errors on the web, we don't want to crash 
+      //      so instead we just skip the request.
+      if (!match || !request.context || request.context[subFolderTrial]) { cb(); return; }
       let [, module, rest] = match;
       // Try resolve just the module name to locate its actual root
       let rootRequest = Object.assign({}, request, { request: module });
diff --git a/src/webpack.d.ts b/src/webpack.d.ts
index e4554b1..f0bccb0 100644
--- a/src/webpack.d.ts
+++ b/src/webpack.d.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ declare namespace Webpack {
     target: string;
     module: {
       rules?: { test?: RegExp; use: string | string[] }[];
+      loaders?: { test?: RegExp; use: string | string[] }[]; // same as rules, supported for backward compat with 1.x
     };
     resolve: {
       alias: { [key: string]: string };