I’m aware of the WP_List_Table class (which has helped tremendously as it stands).
However, I’m hunting for something even more capable – some form of API whereby you could simply ‘register’ a MySQL table, pass field_name => label translations, and all the hard graft (menu links, table-generation, pagination, column sorting) & possibly data exporting (CSV etc.) is done for you automagically!
I know this is an extremely specific request, but I thought it was worth asking. If anyone knows of anything remotely similar, please speak up! Heck, if there’s nothing out there at the moment, I might just build it myself if this raises interest…
https://github.com/scribu/wp-scb-framework/wiki
This guy has built what you are looking for I believe. He’s a core-contributor and his code is top notch. And the project is open on github, so even better right?