While your idea of auto generating web gui might be nice (I haven't seen it in action yet), there's no such solution what I know on the market yet. I want to be able to have a native feel on every platform. That means a web UI, a windows UI, an Android UI, etc.

Therefor my current solution is to have a really tiny presentation layer that is able to adjust to multiple UI.

if you look at blessed for example https://github.com/chjj/blessed you'll see that the widgets fit every use case you would need for a webapp, but just need to write a wrapper for web rather than ncurses if that makes sense.

You'll want to check out "react-blessed", a way to use Blessed through React -- which enables common UI code for both web and terminal.

https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

Thanks, very interesting. I didn't know about blessed before.