Yii2 ActiveFormAsset dependencies - yii2

Question

I'm foregoing Yii2's bundled jQuery and Bootstrap assets in exchange for ones I've bundled myself using npm/browserify So step one was to remove jQuery and Bootstrap from yii\web\YiiAsset via the config:
'components' => [
'assetManager' => [
'bundles' => [
'yii\web\JqueryAsset' => [
'js'=>[]
],
'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapPluginAsset' => [
'js'=>[]
],
'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapAsset' => [
'css' => [],
],
],
],
...
]
I want to put this in the footer, obviously, but it needs to load before any other assets so that jQuery is available to them.
Here's my AssetBundle:
class AppAssets extends AssetBundle
{
public $basePath = '#webroot';
public $baseUrl = '#web';
public $depends = [
'app\assets\CustomAssets',
'yii\web\YiiAsset',
];
}
With my CustomAssets bundle (that contains my own JS and CSS) declared first in depends, I think this would work, but I also have an ActiveForm on the page, and this registers its own asset bundle, which is dependent on the various Yii assets. Here's where I embed that form:
<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(['id' => 'contact-form']); ?>
...
<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>
Is there a way I can override the depends on ActiveFormAsset so that it also depends on my scripts?

Answer 1

Since asset bundle dependencies are transitive, it occurred to me that in the same way I'm overriding the config for the Jquery and Bootstrap bundles, I can override the config for yii\web\YiiAsset like so:
'components' => [
'assetManager' => [
'bundles' => [
...
'yii\web\YiiAsset' => [
'depends' => [
'app\assets\CustomAssets',
],
],
],
],
...
]
So when ActiveFormAsset tries to load yii\web\YiiAsset, it processes the dependency on my own scripts/styles, and also covers any other assets that get loaded and might depend on yii\web\YiiAsset.

Answer 2

what i did was replacing shipped assets, instead of killing them:
'bundles' => [
'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapAsset' => ['class' => 'common\assets\BootstrapAsset',],
'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapPluginAsset' => ['class' => 'common\assets\BootstrapPluginAsset',],
],