This is the thing that piqued my interest when looking into EdgeDB a few weeks ago. Imagine developing your front end by first designing your data queries, and calling a function on the query definition that generates the frontend ui derived from the schema's type system and annotations that can display the result of that query. A man can dream... :)
We used to have a React UI framework for exactly this: ease the pain of generating server and client code for form and data-grid components. You could either describe a form layout in declarative YAML file (binding data types to form fields) or just use the framework to generate components for types fully automatically (based on types and annotations). Our data model, query language, and full introspection makes this possible and almost simple to implement in a generic way. We are thinking about building and open sourcing some of this functionality for EdgeDB, but we don't have an ETA for that yet.
