About
refine offers lots of out-of-the box functionality for rapid development, without compromising extreme customizability. Use-cases include, but are not limited to admin panels, B2B applications and dashboards.
Documentation
For more detailed information and usage, refer to the refine documentation.
Key features
Motivation
Higher-level frontend frameworks can save you a lot time, but they typically offer you a trade-off between speed and flexibility.
After many years of experience in developing B2B frontend applications and working with popular frameworks, we came up with a new approach to tackle this dilemma. This is how refine is born.
refine is a collection of helper hooks, components and providers. They are all decoupled from your UI components and business logic, so they never keep you from customizing your UI or coding your own flow.
As refine is totally unopinionated about UI and logic, it's strongly opinionated about three parts of your application:
- API Networking
- State Management
- Authentication & Authorization
We believe, these are the most important components of a data-intensive frontend application and should be handled in a robust way by leveraging industry best practices.
refine guarantees you a perfect implementation of these building blocks in your project, so you can focus on your development.
Architecture
refine makes extensive use of hooks as a default way for interacting with your components. Under the hood, refine relies heavily to React Query for data handling, caching and state management. Access to external sources and API's happen via providers which are basically plug-in type components for extendibility.
Benchmark
After releasing the first internal versions, we had the chance to migrate some of our React projects to refine. In addition to shorter development times and overall performance gains, we've measured significant reduction in project size.
refine makes your codebase significantly smaller, by eliminating redundant code such as reducers, actions and unit tests. Below is a size comparison for an example project:
Quick Start
Run the superplate tool with the following command:
npx superplate-cli tutorial
Follow the CLI wizard to select options and start creating your project.
After setup is complete, navigate to the project folder and start your project with:
npm run dev
Your refine application will be accessible at http://localhost:3000.
Replace the contents of App.tsx with the following code:
import React from "react";
import {
Refine,
Resource,
useTable,
List,
Table,
useMany,
DateField,
} from "@pankod/refine";
import routerProvider from "@pankod/refine-react-router";
import dataProvider from "@pankod/refine-simple-rest";
import "@pankod/refine/dist/styles.min.css";
const App: React.FC = () => {
return (
<Refine
routerProvider={routerProvider}
dataProvider={dataProvider("https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev")}
resources={[
{
name: "posts",
list: PostList,
},
]}
/>
);
};
export const PostList: React.FC = () => {
const { tableProps } = useTable<IPost>();
const categoryIds =
tableProps?.dataSource?.map((item) => item.category.id) ?? [];
const { data, isLoading } = useMany<ICategory>({
resource: "categories",
ids: categoryIds,
queryOptions: {
enabled: categoryIds.length > 0,
},
});
return (
<List>
<Table<IPost> {...tableProps} rowKey="id">
<Table.Column dataIndex="title" title="title" />
<Table.Column
dataIndex={["category", "id"]}
title="category"
render={(value: string) => {
if (isLoading) {
return "loading...";
}
return data?.data.find(
(item: ICategory) => item.id === value,
)?.title;
}}
/>
<Table.Column
dataIndex="createdAt"
title="createdAt"
render={(value) => <DateField format="LLL" value={value} />}
/>
</Table>
</List>
);
};
export default App;interface IPost {
title: string;
createdAt: string;
category: ICategory;
}
interface ICategory {
id: string;
title: string;
}Roadmap
You can find Refine's Public Roadmap here!
Stargazers
Contribution
If you have a bug to report, do not hesitate to file an issue.
If you are willing to fix an issue or propose a feature; all PRs with clear explanations are welcome and encouraged.
License
Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright © 2021-present Pankod
Special Thanks
React Admin has been a great source of ideas and inspiration for refine. Big thanks to friends at Marmelab for the amazing work they are doing.