While it's not compiler technology (crawlers are trivial too), it's not basic CRUD either. It's an API able to support your entire frontend/SPA/mobile app, basi

While it's not compiler technology (crawlers are trivial too), it's not basic CRUD either. It's an API able to support your entire frontend/SPA/mobile app, basic CRUD won't give you that. If you think it will take you 2-3 days to implement an api for Basecamp i would say you are overly optimistic :). If it would be that simple, products like Parse/Firebase would have not existed in the first place (much less acquired by facebook and google)