Launched in 2021, Refine has become the go-to React framework for building CRUD-heavy apps like admin panels, dashboards, CRMs, CMSs, and HRIS tools. With 25K+ active users, 15K production deployments, and 31K GitHub stars, its open-source community is thriving. Now, Refine grows with RefineAI—purpose-built AI agents that leverage the Refine framework to let developers vibe code complex internal apps and deploy with one click.
Refine just goes by its name and literally refines the time consuming traditional web-app development process and makes it really fast and smooth to develop react based CRUD applications hassle free. Absolutely love it.
React Admin, but much more customizable, which for me was alwasy the deal breaker and the reason for not using React Admin: the moment you needed to deviate slightly from their framework, it was hell. With Refine I was able to create a multi-tenant app with custom URLs in a few minutes customizing the Finewoods Antd demo
Refine is a rare framework that guides your thinking without forcing it to fit into a very specific design model. I can use the framework as intended, but it did not get in the way when I needed to create highly unique features. Refine has good documentation and many functioning examples. The auto-generated code feature is fantastic for giving you a jump start on making CURD pages based on database tables.
