refine is an open-source, headless React framework for rapidly building enterprise web applications. It eliminates many repetitive tasks like ➡️ CRUD operations ➡️ State management ➡️ Routing ➡️ Authentication ➡️ Access Control ➡️ i18n and saves days of development time. So far, thousands of great projects have been built by 15,000+ monthly active refine developers. Use cases are ranging from admin panels, dashboards, and internal tools to B2B solutions and complex SaaS interfaces. refine is backed by a strong community featuring 16K GitHub stars ⭐️, 180+ contributors and 2,500 Discord members. Thanks to it's unique "Headless UI" approach, refine works with any custom design. It has also ready-made integrations with 4 most popular UI frameworks: Ant Design, Material UI, Chakra UI and Mantine. refine is totally backend agnostic and it can connect to 15+ backend services out-of-the-box, incl. custom REST & GraphQL API's. With refine, developers always have 100% control over their projects as they build, style and deploy the way they like.
Serial entrepreneur & Open-source enthusiast | 15+ years experience in building enterprise software | Co-founder & CEO @ refine
Co-founder & CTO @ refine. I started my professional software career in high school and dropped out of university in my first year. Developing open-source, building communities, and helping other developers is a passion of mine
Previous: Worked as Head of Product, founder and CEO in the fields of e-commerce and online dating for almost 15 years. Now: Accompanying the journey of refine, which started as an open-source project in 2022. A React-based framework for the rapid development of web applications.
Refine is an open-source, headless React framework for developers building enterprise web applications. It eliminates many repetitive tasks such as
➡️ CRUD operations ➡️ State management ➡️ Routing ➡️ Authentication ➡️ Access Control & ➡️ i18n
and saves days of development time.
As a developer-focused alternative to existing low-code/no-code enterprise tools, Refine allows developers to work with the stack they are already familiar with and have 100% control over their projects.
For a quick start, you can visit
Thanks to its unique “Headless UI” approach, Refine works with any custom design. It has ready-made integrations with the 4 most popular UI frameworks: Ant Design, Material UI, Chakra UI and Mantine. Refine is totally backend agnostic and can connect to 15+ backend services out-of-the-box, incl. custom REST & GraphQL API’s.
You can give it a try on refine.new to see how easily you can create tailor-made projects in seconds, by combining your preferred tools and technologies.
Instead of being a limited set of pre-styled components, Refine core is a lean collection of helper hooks, components, and providers. They are all decoupled from UI components and business logic, so that they never keep you from customizing your UI or coding your own flow.
Refine is backed by a robust community that showcases the following metrics:
⭐️ 17K GitHub stars
👩💻 150+ Contributors
💻 5,000+ Commits
💬 3,000 Discord members
So far, thousands of great projects have been built by 15,000+ monthly active Refine developers. Use cases include but are not limited to
In addition to our endless contributions to the open-core framework, we are also developing cloud-based products to make Refine a comprehensive platform for developers to build enterprise-grade web applications.