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refine
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refinedev / refine

refine

A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.

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A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.

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I recommend looking at open source react framework for building CRUD apps. GitHub repo: https://github.com/refinedev/refine It is headless by default and supports Material UI,…

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This looks similar to React application frameworks like react-admin [1] or Refine [2]: const App = () => ( <Admin dataProvider={dataProvider}> <Resource name="posts" list={PostList} /> </Admin> ) const PostList = () => ( <List> <DataTable> <DataTable.Col source="date" /> <DataTable.Col source="title /> <DataTable.Col source="author" /> </DataTable> </List> ); The article mentions XML, but the true revolution is JSX itself, which lets you describe any piece of logic as a React element. This opens the possibility to create DSL for everything, just like in Python. [1]: https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin [2]: https://github.com/refinedev/refine
In XMLUI
The dilemma of choosing the right tool for a long-term project is understandable. We are running an open source React framework called refine for building Enterprise B2B apps like admin panels, internal tools and dashboard. It's designed to be ensuring that projects remain maintainable even as time goes by. With its headless architecture, it can be used with custom styles or any UI library and data services. Maybe it helps you somehow You can check the examples with source code: https://refine.dev/docs/examples/ Repository: https://github.com/refinedev/refine
In I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
civan·Aug 9, 2023Submission

Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-source platform for enterprise web apps

Hi HN! We’re the co-founders of Refine (https://github.com/refinedev/refine), an open-source platform for developing enterprise web applications rapidly. In one year since launch we have 15K active developers each month, and over 5K projects in production. Among the 5,000+ projects deployed to production, we see a lot of admin panels, dashboards, B2B portals and SAAS interfaces. Check out our online generator at (https://refine.dev/#playground) to create a custom Refine application and download it. Before starting refine, we spent five years as a consultancy company building internal-facing applications for enterprise clients. We have seen many complex use cases where the demanded flexibility was much higher than what existing low-code/no-code solutions provide. Moving away from rigid architectures and pre-made components that are difficu
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lt to customize, developers tend to start from the scratch. This results in a significant waste of time and resources. In order to find a sweet spot between “starting from scratch” and higher level solutions, we started working on refine. After a couple of iterations, we came up with a “headless” solution, separating the UI-layer completely from the rest of the frontend logic. This allowed us to support multiple UI frameworks and custom designs out of the box. We understand the importance of frontend developers working with the stack and tools they love and are familiar with. So, we have built our project creation wizard that allows developers to mix and match their technology stack when creating a project. After 1.5 years of development with the great support of the open-source community, Refine has become a mature framework that allows developers to rapidly build enterprise applications and have 100% control over their projects. While remaining unobtrusive, Refine still saves a lot of development resources by eliminating repetitive tasks such as CRUD operations, state management, routing, authentication, access control, and i18n. It’s also backend-agnostic and works with any APIs or services. The best way to start Refine development is visiting our extensive documentation at (https://refine.dev/docs/). Here, you can also find tutorials and real-life examples to use as a starting point for your use case. We had one successful Show HN earlier this year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34515128), and have since had several major releases and added many more features. Recently, we've released our enterprise edition featuring deployments, built-in security, backend integrations and auto-generated UI's. By expanding Refine's capabilities beyond the frontend, the enterprise edition offers a complete solution for the internal tooling requirements of larger organizations. To get more information, please see our pricing page: https://refine.dev/pricing/. If you have any questions, ideas or suggestions please share them with us. The team will be here all day to answer. We look forward to all of your comments!
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Hey Community, Omer here, CTO at refine. After six months of hard work, we’re excited to share our first cloud product: https://refine.new refine.new is a powerful tool that lets you create React-based, headless UI enterprise applications right in your browser. You have the ability to preview, modify, and download your project immediately, thereby streamlining the development process. By visually combining options for your preferred React platform(CRA, Next.js and Remix), UI framework, backend connector, and authentication provider; you can create tailor-made architectures for your project in seconds. It feels like having access to thousands of project templates, allowing you to choose the one that best suits your needs. Once you’ve made your selections, you’ll have access to a live preview that you can customize further with themes and l
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ogos. If you haven’t heard abou refine, it’s an open-source, headless React framework for quickly building enterprise web apps. It streamlines tasks like CRUD operations, state management, routing, authentication, access control and i18n. refine’s “Headless UI” approach makes it compatible with any custom design, and it integrates with popular UI frameworks like Ant Design, Material UI, Chakra UI, and Mantine. It’s backend-agnostic and can connect to 15+ backend services out-of-the-box, including custom REST & GraphQL APIs. Developers maintain complete control over their projects with refine, building, styling, and deploying as they see fit. To learn more, GitHub repo, or dive into our comprehensive documentation filled with real-life examples and tutorials. Repo: https://github.com/refinedev/refine Please share ideas and suggestions to help us improve our project.
In Show HN: Refine.new – Build Enterprise React Apps in Browser
If I were building an MVP today, my stack would likely include a web framework such as Django or Ruby on Rails for the backend, a React framework such as refine for the frontend, and a database such as PostgreSQL for data storage. refine is React based for building CRUD app rapidly. Repo: https://github.com/refinedev/refine With refine You can build admin panel, dashboard, internal tolls, and any CRUD app rapidly It eliminates the repetitive tasks demanded by CRUD operations and provides solutions for critical parts like authentication, access control, routing, networking, state management, and i18n. It also has connectors for 15+ backend services including REST API, GraphQL, NestJs CRUD, Airtable, Strapi, Strapi v4, Strapi GraphQL, Supabase, Hasura, Nhost, Appwrite, Firebase.. So you can save a lot of time from development time.
In Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
Thank you so much. 1. We've released a codemod when releasing v3 and allowed users to upgrade easily from v2 to v3 and we're planning to do the same for v4 as well. https://refine.dev/docs/migration-guide/ 2. We got a similar question before. You can check it out here: https://github.com/refinedev/refine/discussions/3261 3. We have detailed comparison table for similar tools: https://refine.dev/docs/comparison/ Have you ever tried similar tools for building a CRUD app before? Can you suggest any for us to take a look?
In Show HN: Refine v3.97 – Open-source React framework for building CRUD apps

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