Summary

This chapter laid the conceptual foundation for project item templates and project templates. The use of template tags for searching and filtering was covered, along with an explanation of when to use templates. It is important to recognize when this technique makes sense. To this end, we ran and examined a sample application that will be used in the next chapter to create our own custom template.

This sample application made use of dependency injection, a significant programming principle. After an exercise to demonstrate swapping out the data provider, the value of templates was also emphasized. We stated that it does not matter if the example project used for demonstration does not exactly match your own needs. Once you see how simple it is to create templates, you can easily apply these techniques to your own classes and projects.

Personally, I have been on project teams where we had to create the numerous API controllers, mappers, repository classes, interfaces...