Yii 2 Advanced Gulp Sass Application Template using Zurb Foundation for Sites

Yii 2 Advanced Gulp Sass Application Template using Zurb Foundation for Sites is a skeleton Yii 2 application for developing complex Web applications with multiple tiers.

The template includes three tiers: front end, back end, and console, each of which is a separate Yii application.

The template is designed to work in a team development environment. It supports deploying the application in different environments.

Documentation is at https://github.com/jacmoe/yii2-app-advanced-zurbified/blob/master/docs/guide/README.md.

Installation

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have installed composer and Node.js. If you are on Debian or Ubuntu you might also want to install the libnotify-bin package, which is used by Gulp to inform you about its status.

Gulp

install gulp globally if you haven't done so before

npm install -g gulp-cli

Browsersync

install browsersync globally if you haven't done so before

npm install -g browser-sync

Composer

php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev jacmoe/yii2-app-advanced-gulp-sass advanced

Post-installation

initialize the application, choose "development"

./init

Post-installation

Install the node modules by running this command at the project root directory:

npm install

After a successful install, build the project using:

gulp build

To launch a browser window and watch the project for changes:

gulp

To build optimized for production (minification, etc) specify the production flag:

gulp build --production

and/or

gulp --production

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

common
    config/              contains shared configurations
    mail/                contains view files for e-mails
    models/              contains model classes used in both backend and frontend
console
    config/              contains console configurations
    controllers/         contains console controllers (commands)
    migrations/          contains database migrations
    models/              contains console-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
backend
    assets/              contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/              contains backend configurations
    controllers/         contains Web controller classes
    models/              contains backend-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
    views/               contains view files for the Web application
    web/                 contains the entry script and Web resources
frontend
    assets/              contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/              contains frontend configurations
    controllers/         contains Web controller classes
    models/              contains frontend-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
    views/               contains view files for the Web application
    web/                 contains the entry script and Web resources
    widgets/             contains frontend widgets
vendor/                  contains dependent 3rd-party packages
environments/            contains environment-based overrides
tests                    contains various tests for the advanced application
    codeception/         contains tests developed with Codeception PHP Testing Framework