Expose jQuery to real Window object with Webpack

Question

I want to expose the jQuery object to the global window object that is accessible inside the developer console in the browser. Now in my webpack config I have following lines:

plugins: [
                new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
                    $: 'jquery',
                    jQuery: 'jquery'
                })
            ]

These lines add the jQuery definitions to each file in my webpack modules. But when I build the project and try to access jQuery in the developer console like this:

window.$;
window.jQuery;

it says that these properties are undefined...

Is there a way to fix this?