Show HN: UIGen – Production UI from any API spec with full override control

Category: devtools

Tags: openapi, ui-generator, api-client, frontend-framework, runtime-rendering

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

UIGen is a tool that generates a fully functional, production-ready UI directly from an OpenAPI specification at runtime, eliminating the need for code generation or maintenance. It offers smart forms, authentication, data visualization, and an override system for custom React components, plus AI agent skills for configuration. Its runtime rendering approach and framework-agnostic intermediate representation make it a novel and practical solution for quickly building frontends for any API.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, full-stack devs

Repository: https://github.com/darula-hpp/uigen · TypeScript · 60 stars

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