I got to exploring Yii3 via Craft CMS . Craft is moving to Laravel with their sixth version . When I saw the announcement I was thinking Yii was having problems because Yii3 was stuck for a long time on 80 precent, if I can remember that right.

But now I have seen Yii3 I think the decision is more because they needed change their guts anyway when they update to Yii3.

Major changes

Yii2 is, like most other frameworks, one pre-configured bundle . With Yii3 all components are separate and the glue that binds them together are the templates; web , api , console .…