Yii2 is too heavy for API project

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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I’m starting an API project with Yii 2. But sometime along the way, I found out that Yii 2 is really heavy with all the static stuffs (jQuery, bower, jui, etc.) built in, which are not needed in an API project at all. So I’m wondering is there a way to make Yii 2 more lightweight, or be more specific, remove all the static stuffs?

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Remove the vendor folders for those extensions you don’t need?

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Why? These aren’t used in any way since Yii uses lazy loading approach.