This component publishes json serialisable data as 'key -> value' from PHP code into global JS variable window.gon.

Why?

The need for such an extensions came while working on web apps with mixed approach: rich JavaScript GUI on web page, but each page is reloaded and most of bussiness logic is still on the backend side.

The simples solution for a quick prototyping is pushing a data from PHP controller to global JS variable. That makes you free from a lot of REST API getters (you can make a lot without an API at all). So I did the first protype of this extension during "EU Web Challenge 2015" tasks coding. And now publish it as a standalone package.

Idea is inspired by Ruby gem gon https://github.com/gazay/gon (the name is taken from it too. "GON" authors - in case of any naming issues, just ping me :))

The solution for a question "how do I expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet?". Literally when your dev machine does not have a dedicated IP, but you need to...

• make a demo of localhost web app (and can not deploy it to some server)
• make a quick test of web app (api) on your mobile device
• accept a webhook from some service or oAuth redirect

Local tunnels allows you to easily share a local web service development machine without messing with DNS and firewall settings. And here are some free tools...

Vue.js is great and relatively new JS lib for building reactive interfaces. It is very easy and fun to work with it.
A lot of cool things coul be written about it, but this is not the goal of this post (I definitely should write some introductory post later). I consider that you are already familiar with it and also could be interested in Russian lang docs translation.

I have created a GitHub organization repo with official docs/site fork. In lang-ru branch everythign is being translated.

Here is the list of all pages and their translation status. If you want to help - just select a page, drop a comment about that, translate it and make a pull request!

Vue.js russian site with current translation state synced http://vuejs-ru.github.io/vuejs.org/
(it is periodically being redeployed)

• New asset management > This is one of the biggest changes so far. All details you can find by the link above. In two words - it is proposed to handle Bower/NPM dependencies automatically via Composers plugin.
  Some specific composer.json and assests bundle configuration is required for that.
  Still, it does not work out-of-the-box and require some manual Composer plugin installation, but as I understand it will work automatically after some Composer feature-merge.

• Upgrading from Yii 2.0 Beta ? Prepary yourself to a lot of work, huge changes manual do to internal api refine work (and to be updated in future). Btw. I haven't also update my blog "engine" for more than a 6 months. Couple sleepless update-nights guaranteed :)

• Replication and Read-Write Splitting in DB component
• Discussion on L4-style schema migrations for Yii2. I would definitely love it to appear in Yii2.
• But alternative for L4 AR collections seems to be rejected or postponed till 2.1 release.
• AR-like REST service client planned for Yii 2.1
• Yii2 tests are finally passing on HHVM
• Analysis of Coding Conventions for Yii PHP Framework Version 2 - if you like useles stats and nice plots, have a look on it :)
• Introduction to the Yii Framework by CodeTuts

• Documentation translation is started. Select some ready made En guide section and move on like Ru example.
• A lot of docs are being updated and added. Reminder - docs are here
• The Yii2 guide will also be available as PDF soon. First very rough draft is uploaded here: http://stuff.cebe.cc/yii2-guide.pdf
• Yii 2.0 review slides by Alexander Makarov
• What new PHP features do you need to learn to understand Yii2
• Yii 2 list of path aliases available with default basic and advanced app
• WIP Bower package manager / non-PHP dependencies. @pmoust tries to integrate it with BowerPHP
• No Ubuntu Juju Charms support out of the box.

• No .htaccess in example app.

  ...since nowadays nginx usage is very high and .htaccess is useless for it and many other webservers.

• Events partial wildcard matching not planned to have

• Added export() and exportAsString(). Kind-a own var_export
• kPHP in Yii framework? Definetily not, while kPHP does not support OOP.
• Added truncate and truncateWords methods. Cool, I was writing own implementations for blog :)
• Added support for using conditional comments for js and css files registered through asset bundles and Html helper
• Docs : Using template engines (Twig, Smarty)
• API dicsussion : add multi-level relations to ActiveRecord::extraFields()
• Vkontakte oAuth support
• RBAC tables are made via migration now
• Discussion: Eager loading of the statistical relations could apperar in RC
• Discussion: RESTful service client