Are there any good resources for integrating React into a Yii2 Project?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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I’m looking to use React as part of my Yii 2 project to create an SPA. I’ve seen a number of extensions that deal with React in Yii, but I’m wondering if there are any tutorial resources explaining the best structure and implementation?

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Usually that’s two separate applications. One is backend, Yii 2 REST. It is described in guide well. Another is React frontend that has no PHP at all.

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@samdark

When you say it’s two separate applications, are you saying it’s impossible to do it as I’ve described, or simply not recommended?

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You can place frontend/API part into a single project. That won’t make it a single application though.

If you’ve meant something else, please elaborate it.

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I see yii router setup as the main thing that connects the two, other than maybe react app consuming api provided by yii. It wont be a single application, technically, but what you describe is definitely doable this way.

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We use ReactJS in a few places in our app but we did not integrate ReactJS in the Yii project. There is no reason to integrate them. The front-end ReactJS app interoperates with the backend Yii app over REST API and Websocket.

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@samdark @thefsb I pulled down the Basic app template and created a folder api, which holds my api module structure. I have repurposed the site/index action to be the page that serves the initial entry point for the SPA. From there it renders react, and makes calls to the api to pull down JSON.

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@pkestefran Thanks, I’ve begun integrating ReactRouter, it looks exactly like what I need.