I haven't seen any type of 'one-stop shop' as you are describing but I usually feel safe using bootstrap with the the same UI macros as the OOB UI pages. You can find them by searching "ui_" in sys_ui_macro.name. Many of the components are documented pretty well. Here is the OOB reference field as an example.
Name: ui_reference
Description:
Creates a selector showing records from a specified table.
Attributes:
name= what you want to name the select
table= the table from which you will select
value= the initial value for the select (may be omitted if nothing is initially selected)
show_popup= true/false whether the popup icon is displayed
show_lookup=true/false for lookup list to display the magnifying glass or not
completer= set to another completer class if you do not want AJAXReferenceCompleter (for example, AJAXTableCompleter)
If you are using completer=AJAXReferenceCompleter, you can also use:
columns= if you want to show additional columns in the drop down (semicolon separated list)
order_by= if you want to sort matches in the drop down by a particular column
query= if you want to limit the results (for example, active=true)
