Preparations

Create a web root directory (usually it’s , htdocs, public_html, www or alike name). Inside add directories
named assets, , models and views.

The structure we’ve just created is similar to the structure used by Yii. You can adjust it as you like but for this
tutorial we’ll stick to Yii convention in order to make it easier to understand.

• controllers is for AngularJs controllers.
• is for services which deal with RESTful CRUD API we’re going to build.

Download a library from and extract it to assets directory like the following:

Download a library from http://angularjs.org/, and extract it into assets directory like the following:

Web Service Application

Install Yii 2.0 Basic project template as .
It is preferred to use Composer like the following:

Alternatively you can do it manually downloading and extracting archive as described at the same guide page.