For my web app projects, I've been creating REST apis in my AWS account. These apis run using AWS API gateway, lambda, cloudfront. Each API generally does the same thing:

1.) validate the input params 2.) simple logic (send email, read from database, etc.) 3.) response w/ data and caching rules

Lately, I've been thinking "there must be a better way" than writing all this code to do simple logic. I've looked into some of the no-code REST api creators, but they are always proprietary. For example: https://restdb.io/ lets you define your API using a UI, but then your backend is locked into their proprietary system. I'd like to use a UI to define the simple API, but then have the UI backed by actual code and infrastructure in my AWS account.

Does anything like this exist? Do you all agree that this would be useful? If so, maybe I'll take this on as a side-project.

Thanks!