Question

Pros and cons of using Gii in Yii2 for implementing an admin panel

Answer 1

Gii is a code generator of Yii2. From the article

Pros

• CRUD code is generated for each model/table, which you can subsequently change as you like.
• You don’t need to follow the ideology of the ready-made library and are free in your work.
• There are a sufficient number of ready-to-use frontend components in the framework itself.

Cons

• The time to implement an admin panel can be noticeably longer than with ready-made solutions.
• Yii2 remains strongly tied to Bootstrap 3, which imposes its own limitations when developing the front end.
• Most likely, you’ll have to develop and implement your own design since there’s essentially no design when generating code and templates — only normal and functional Bootstrap components.