I've been working on a tool that generates the basic scaffolding for a CRUD API/GraphQL app in Node/Mongo/Express. Basically you write descriptions of your data

I've been working on a tool that generates the basic scaffolding for a CRUD API/GraphQL app in Node/Mongo/Express. Basically you write descriptions of your database models and it produces a very simple standalone app - you just go into the new folder, do npm install and run it, and it works out the gate. It's made to save you all the dull parts of creating a simple CRUD tool to get up and running, which you can then go ahead and add on to as you need. I'd link to it but it's not really ready for prime time. But there's probably a billion other similar tools like it already. For me, it was built out of the desire to create, not a framework, but a static code generator - it literally generates the .js files for you, you only run it once to generate those files, and the tool itself isn't part of the finished app at all.