Should gii use bootstrap5 assets since both basic and advanced apps are already using it? about yii2-gii

[schmunk42]

If implemented, it should go into a separate folder here https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-gii/tree/master/src/generators/crud
But we'd have to maintain two sets of views then.

I think this should be left to an extension, since it's basically a configuration thing for your current project.

Or ... the app-templates should provide the corresponding CRUD templates.

[atrandafir]

I have forked the repo and did some playing around to see what would be a good solution.

I've ended up with something like this:

You can see the commit here (it is not finished yet):
atrandafir@6ae6a69

Apparently the only things that can change depending on bootstrap version, are the php classes, or the html classes generated in the views. So with some setup like this, there would be no need to maintain multiple views, because the rest of the code would not change.

Also with this in the future maybe even someone could use a different framework than Bootstrap, and configure gii and map all the classes to the corresponding ones.

Currently some stuff is breaking from bs 3 that I think was used initially, to bs 5. Mostly the forms "break" because the classes do not match anymore. But the GridView does not seem to break, at least not for now, but maybe in the future it will, and it would be required to be included into https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap5 repo.

[schmunk42]

This current views are barebone HTML, I do not think it's a viable way just to re-map some CSS and PHP classes.
In theory it would be nice, but CSS frameworks also rely on markup sometimes.

You can simply provide your own templates, see https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-gii/blob/master/docs/guide/topics-creating-your-own-templates.md

For an example how to further extend gii, have a look at https://github.com/schmunk42/yii2-giiant