Yii2 Advanced Application Template with RESTful API configured. Take a look at http://budiirawan.com/setup-restful-api-yii2/ for more detail explanation

You need Composer installed first.

composer self-update

composer install

Open terminal and go to the project folder and run

Mac/Linux

php ./init

Windows

init

Choose development environment and finish the steps.

create your database and configure it in common/config/main-local.php

This command will create new country table and populate its data

./yii migrate

Make sure you already enable this mod. Follow this Tutorial