The Template Method is a lie

In my recent adventures with controller-less actions, and trying to solve the issue of the crazy CRUDController mess I had put myself (and our team/project) into. While some gravitate towards the Singleton pattern to abuse after they learn the GoF patterns, that wasn’t the case for me. Instead, I fell in love with the Template Pattern. But there’s a problem with the Template pattern as the golden hammer for every incidence of duplication we find in our application. The Template Method favors inheritance over composition.

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