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CMB2
CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind.
I recently came across mention of the Underpin WP framework, and was initially very enthused with what it could do, and I realized how much I needed something like that. I tried to get into it, but realized that since its latest update the docs have been sorely lacking, and I haven't been able to get much to work with it. As a result, I probably wouldn't want to lean on it too much anyway, even if I could get it to work.
Carl Alexander has some pretty good articles on all of this on his site.
I just started on a new plugin, and I used this boilerplate as my jumping-off point. So far, it seems to abstract away from wordpress just a little less than something like the Underpin framework I linked to in the original post does, so I feel like it's helping me get a bit of a feel for how WP handles things, while also adding some much-needed structure and doing things like helping separate the dashboard side from the frontend side. As for the REST API side, where would you turn to that? Is that just when you want to expose bits of the site to external services, or would you use it to allow internal components to communicate with one another or something like that?
So far in this current project, I added CMB2 as a composer dependency, and that's done just enough to take away the headache of adding custom metaboxes and input fields to different pages. I feel like maybe if I just get myself the most basic toolkit to handle these common tasks, and a boilerplate to start me off with some structure, I may be able to wrap my mind around the way WP expects things to be added and registered the more I work with it.