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Why a Provider Layer Beats Fat Controllers in Symfony

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The shape

Controllers receive requests. Providers handle reads. Repositories handle persistence. Each layer has one job and is testable on its own.

The tradeoff

More files. The win is that a second consumer (API + Twig, or two different APIs) costs almost nothing to add.

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