Top Down Template is maybe just a synonym for Framework. Using a canned framework is the opposite of home growing all the code, which may amount to reinventing the wheel in the pejorative sense.
Gene Fowler would argue that we do need to reinvent wheels from time to time, to keep up with our own innate abilities and to not lose touch with first principles, something like that.
Codomyrmex is a Github repo with what we might call generic code, already modularized, well organized, and generalized to a high level. It's a framework. Just reading it is instructive, as it radiates page after page of state of the art best practices.
