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cebe/assetfree-yii2
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A meta package that allows you to install yii2 without composer-asset-plugin.

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[cebe/assetfree-yii2](https://packagist.org/packages/cebe/assetfree-yii2) composer package
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[](#cebeassetfree-yii2-composer-package)

A composer package that allows you to install [yii2](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2) without [composer-asset-plugin](https://github.com/francoispluchino/composer-asset-plugin).

How to use?
-----------

[](#how-to-use)

Just require `cebe/assetfree-yii2` instead of `yiisoft/yii2` in your `composer.json`.

Why?
----

[](#why)

Yii2 currently depends on Asset packages to make it really easy to create frontend applications as it directly provides Widgets and Javascript/CSS components out of the box. Therefore, the [composer-asset-plugin](https://github.com/francoispluchino/composer-asset-plugin) is used which allows to manage frontend dependencies directly in composer.json.

Sometimes however, these frontend components are not needed, e.g. if you use Yii to create a Console Application, Background workers or a REST API. So if you do not want to install the composer-asset-plugin on your production servers because you do not need any asset functionality anyway you may use this package instead of requiring `yiisoft/yii2` directly.

How does this work?
-------------------

[](#how-does-this-work)

Magic:  :)

This package claims to "[provide](https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#provide)" the required asset packages which are only available when composer-asset-plugin is installed. In reallity no asset packages are installed, so this is only useful in cases [where you do not need them](#why).

###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~42 days

Recently: every ~98 days

Total

66

Last Release

1004d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/261a6249c6f605f3956a2fae40fbb813f6b2e1e6f2bf806180c851a965426e54?d=identicon)[cebe](/maintainers/cebe)

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Top Contributors

[![cebe](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/189796?v=4)](https://github.com/cebe "cebe (93 commits)")[![SOHELAHMED7](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6770119?v=4)](https://github.com/SOHELAHMED7 "SOHELAHMED7 (1 commits)")

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Tags

hacktoberfest

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