Back in the late 90's, there were several CRUD web app generators that were quite good. I used a commercial one, and was demo'ed an internal one used by a small

Back in the late 90's, there were several CRUD web app generators that were quite good. I used a commercial one, and was demo'ed an internal one used by a small Michigan design house (govt. contractor.) They said it was their secret sauce, and I believe them. Currently, there are several database ETL tools (Talend, Pentaho, etc.) which are graphical (think shitty like Labview), but anybody serious uses python or perl scripts. Today I would look at Zapier or publishing a Google sheet. https://zapier.com/learn/forms-surveys/best-online-form-builder-software/ https://zapier.com/learn/forms-surveys/best-online-form-buil... In the 2000-2005 era, there was national advertising by those sketchy diploma-mill universities like U. of Phoenix to turn military veterans into C++ programmers because the Visual Studio IDE "did all the work for you." Those TV ads were truly eyebrow-raising to me, since I learned all that the hard way (ie. paid development projects) and couldn't recall the IDE every writing a function for me. The lightest-weight and most powerful text form builder is likely Perl's CGI::FormBuilder module. I've used it for several years and it is remarkable for building CRUD apps. Apple's Resedit and Adobe's internal dialog layout editor both allow visual layout that saves to text resources. OpenAPI has tools for generating a server API skeleton, but I think it has the same problem as all code generators: when you want to substantially change it, you'll want to check it in to git and hand-edit, like always.