This is customized Yii 2 Basic Project Template integrated with Gulp and BrowserSync.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

  assets/             contains assets definition
  commands/           contains console commands (controllers)
  config/             contains application configurations
  controllers/        contains Web controller classes
  mail/               contains view files for e-mails
  models/             contains model classes
  runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
  tests/              contains various tests for the basic application
  themes/              containes themes for the Web application
  vendor/             contains dependent 3rd-party packages
  views/              contains view files for the Web application
  web/                contains the entry script and Web resources

Installation

You can then install this project template using the following command:

$ php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev maswahyu/yii2-basic-custom basic-custom

Then install the packages required by npm.

$ npm install

Now you should be able to access the application through the following URL, assuming basic-custom is the directory directly under the Web root.

http://localhost/basic-custom/web/

Asset Bundle & Theming

Asset Bundles are stored under themes folder with the following directory structure.

  |-- themes
      |-- ThemeA
      |-- ThemeB            theme name
          |-- assets        contains the source assets
              |-- scss
              |-- js
              |-- fonts
              |-- img
          |-- dist          contains the generated assets that will be used by Yii
              |-- css
              |-- js
              |-- fonts
              |-- img
          |-- views
              |-- layouts   contains the layouts available for the theme
              |-- site      contains the view files for the controller `site`
              |-- ... other view folder
          |-- ThemeAsset.php

In order to use theme, the configuration is as follow.

        'view' => [
            // theming configurations
            'theme' => [
                'basePath' => '@themes/ThemeB',
                'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/ThemeB',
                'pathMap' => [
                    '@app/views' => '@themes/ThemeB/views',
                ],
            ],
        ],

Using Gulp & BrowserSync

To automate building the assets while working on Frontend, you can run gulp to automatically build the assets, watch for changes and reload the browser.

$ gulp
[00:14:40] Using gulpfile C:\xampp\htdocs\saga\sahabatufs-revamp\gulpfile.js
[00:14:40] Starting 'default'...
[00:14:40] Starting 'styles'...
[00:14:40] Starting 'scripts'...
[00:14:40] Finished 'scripts' after 20 ms
[00:14:43] Finished 'styles' after 2.8 s
[00:14:43] Starting 'serve'...
[Browsersync] Proxying: https://new.sufs.local
[Browsersync] Access URLs:
 ---------------------------------------
       Local: https://localhost:3000
    External: https://192.168.100.3:3000
 ---------------------------------------
          UI: http://localhost:3001
 UI External: http://localhost:3001
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This will open the project in browser. If you make changes to any of .scss, .js, views and save the files, the browser will automatically reloaded to shows the changes.

To change the theme, you need to configure config/web.php and gulpfile.js with the theme you wanna use. The former is used by Yii and the later is used by gulp to build the assets.