Bernie van't Hof wrote:

>  My question then is how to take a form spec and automagically convert it 
> into a web form.

What design pattern did you follow for your data persistence web service?

If you followed a standard design pattern (e.g., SOAP, REST, STOMP) then 
there is a Javascript framework that supports data binding against your 
service.

If not, then you might have your work cut out for you.  :-)

My Angular (1.6) recommendation was based on the observation that it is well 
suited to code generation.  I suspect Angular 2 is as well.

I don't know what web service patterns exist for Websockets.  Consequently I 
do not know what Javascript data binding frameworks would be of use.

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Larry DiGiovanni