What backend-agnostic admin interfaces / GUIs are there? [closed]

Answer 1

This is a community wiki answer. You should edit me with your improvements. Alphabetically sorted.

Implementations

• AdminJS is a database table like GUI with CRUD abilities
  NOTE: No longer maintained.

  
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• Create.js is an inline editing GUI for editing content and managing collections, it provides a widget interface and can be extended to have WYSIWYG editors placed ontop of it

  Create.js running with Aloha Editor http://bergie.iki.fi/files/1e04599abfee694459911e0bf1021b4fddbed1bed1b_midgardcreate-save-transition-small.png

• HydraConsole is a generic API console for Hydra-powered Web APIs.

  

• Lumber Lumber uses your SQL or MongoDB database to generates a modern Admin Interface application that is completely backend agnostic and highly flexible.

  

• ng-admin: Add an AngularJS admin GUI to any RESTful API

• Web Write's InlineGUI is an inline editing GUI with CRUD and site management abilities

  

Specs/Frameworks

• Create.js Backend Integration Guide - REST API spec for CRUD actions

• VIE - server-agnostic JavaScript data layer built on the W3C RDFa and JSON-LD specs and used in Create.js

• Hydra - a lightweight vocabulary to create hypermedia-driven Web APIs. By specifying a number of concepts commonly used in Web APIs it enables the creation of generic API clients.

• Web Write Spec - REST API spec for CRUD actions and collection listings

• Neutron Protocol - XML and WebDAV protocol for content editing

• The Atom Publishing Protocol - XML and WebDAV protocol for content editing

• MetaWeblog API - XML-RPC API for blog-oriented content editing

• Data.js - data representation framework for Javascript

• Twingle - XUL application and protocol for cross-system content editing (discontinued)

Articles

• Moving DocPad Forward, the rise of backend-agnostic GUIs

• Decoupling Content Management

• VIE 2.0 is starting to emerge

• Using RDFa to make web pages editable

• Neutrol Protocol - separating UI from the CMS

• ng-admin: Add an AngularJS admin GUI to any RESTful API

Answer 2

There is also https://github.com/punkave/jquery-rest-admin In this context http://jsonapi.org could also start playing a role.