Straightforward way to generate code with Mongoose and Node.js and Underscore?

Answer 1

See AllcountJS rapid application development framework. It allows to define domain model in JSON-like format. For example simple Hello World application that would have one MongoDB collection named HelloWorld with two fields: text "Foo" and date "Bar" would look like

A.app({
  appName: "Hello World",
  menuItems: [
    {
      name: "Hello world",
      entityTypeId: "HelloWorld",
    }
  ],
  entities: function(Fields) {
    return {
      HelloWorld: {
        fields: {
          foo: Fields.text("Foo"),
          bar: Fields.date("Bar")
        }
      }
    }
  }
});

Menu, table and form UI is generated automatically using default Jade templates, AngularJS and Twitter Bootstrap. AllcountJS also provides a way to override default templates and has other extension points.