I made a template to start prototyping with yii2 in an instant.
It’s already available through packagist, so you can even use this command:
$ composer create-project hunwalk/yii2-basic-firestarter <yourProject> --stability=dev
Everything else is in the readme, but nonetheless here is a real short summary about this:
- dotenv configuration,
- dektrium user management and rbac by default
- controllermaps inside the console config for migrations (separating the 3rd party migrations)
- extended user, with api key features (upon enabling httpBearerAuth access control will work in that controller by sending a bearer token. more infomation and docs are coming soon…and a hotfix because there is a bug i’ve just found)
- api key generation upon registration
- and more…i think…
If you’ve found a bug or have an idea about improving this project,just hit the github repo right away 
Have a nice…coding time 