A better way to mod crafting

There needs to be a better way to make custom crafting UI's rather than having to manually add every recipe in a procedure. Same with furnaces and other processing blocks.

I'm trying to make a portable crafting UI that you can open with an item. Like the philosophers stone in project e.

I know there is already a topic for this, but its from 2020 and has no replies.

I'm learning Java so I don't have run in to issues like this.