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The sweet spot between the low/no code and “starting from scratch” for CRUD-heavy applications.

Refine Core is an open source, React meta-framework for enterprise. It provides a headless solution for everything from admin panels to dashboards and internal tools.

Refine CORE also powers Refine's purpose built AI agent.

What is Refine CORE?

Refine CORE is a React meta-framework for CRUD-heavy web applications. It addresses a wide range of enterprise use cases including internal tools, admin panels, dashboards and B2B apps.

Refine CORE's hooks and components streamline the development process by offering industry-standard solutions for crucial aspects of a project, including authentication, access control, routing, networking, state management, and i18n.

Refine CORE's headless architecture enables the building of highly customizable applications by decoupling business logic from UI and routing. This allows integration with:

• Any custom designs or UI frameworks like TailwindCSS, along with built-in support for Ant Design, Material UI, Mantine, and Chakra UI.

• Various platforms, including Next.js, Remix, React Native, Electron, etc., by a simple routing interface without the need for additional setup steps.

⚡ Try Refine CORE

Start a new project with Refine CORE in seconds using the following command:

npm create refine-app@latest my-refine-app

Or you can create a new project on your browser:

You can also try Refine's AI agent for free to create projects:

Quick Start

Here's Refine CORE in action, the below code is an example of a simple CRUD application using Refine CORE + React Router + Material UI:

import React from "react";
import { Refine, useMany } from "@refinedev/core";
import { ThemedLayout } from "@refinedev/mui";
import dataProvider from "@refinedev/simple-rest";
import routerProvider from "@refinedev/react-router";
import { BrowserRouter, Outlet, Route, Routes } from "react-router";

import CssBaseline from "@mui/material/CssBaseline";

export default function App() {
  return (
    <BrowserRouter>
      <CssBaseline />
      <Refine
        dataProvider={dataProvider("https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev")}
        routerProvider={routerProvider}
        resources={[
          {
            name: "products",
            list: "/products",
          },
        ]}
      >
        <Routes>
          <Route
            element={
              <ThemedLayout>
                <Outlet />
              </ThemedLayout>
            }
          >
            <Route path="/products">
              <Route index element={<ProductList />} />
            </Route>
          </Route>
        </Routes>
      </Refine>
    </BrowserRouter>
  );
}

// src/pages/products/list.tsx

import { List, useDataGrid, DateField } from "@refinedev/mui";
import { DataGrid, GridColDef } from "@mui/x-data-grid";

export const ProductList = () => {
  const { dataGridProps } = useDataGrid();

  const { data: categories, isLoading } = useMany({
    resource: "categories",
    ids:
      dataGridProps?.rows?.map((item) => item?.category?.id).filter(Boolean) ??
      [],
    queryOptions: {
      enabled: !!dataGridProps?.rows,
    },
  });

  const columns = React.useMemo<GridColDef[]>(
    () => [
      { field: "id", headerName: "ID", type: "number" },
      { field: "name", flex: 1, headerName: "Name" },
      {
        field: "category",
        flex: 1,
        headerName: "Category",
        display: "flex",
        renderCell: ({ value }) =>
          isLoading
            ? "Loading..."
            : categories?.data?.find((item) => item.id === value?.id)?.title,
      },
      {
        field: "createdAt",
        flex: 1,
        headerName: "Created at",
        display: "flex",
        renderCell: ({ value }) => <DateField value={value} />,
      },
    ],
    [categories?.data, isLoading],
  );

  return (
    <List>
      <DataGrid {...dataGridProps} columns={columns} />
    </List>
  );
};

The result will look like this:

Use cases

Refine CORE shines on data-intensive⚡ enterprise B2B applications like admin panels, dashboards and internal tools. Thanks to the built-in SSR support, it can also power customer-facing applications like storefronts.

You can take a look at some live examples that can be built using Refine CORE from scratch:

• Fully-functional CRM Application
• Fully-functional Admin Panel
• Win95 Style Admin panel 🪟
• PDF Invoice Generator
• Medium Clone - Real World Example
• Multitenancy Example
• Storefront
• Refer to templates page for more examples
• More Refine CORE powered different usage scenarios can be found here

Key Features

• Refine CORE Devtools - dive deeper into your app and provide useful insights
• Connectors for 15+ backend services including REST API, GraphQL, NestJs CRUD, Airtable, Strapi, Strapi v4, Supabase, Hasura, Appwrite, Nestjs-Query, Firebase, Sanity, and Directus.
• SSR support with Next.js & Remix and Advanced routing with any router library of your choice
• Auto-generation of CRUD UIs based on your API data structure
• Perfect state management & mutations with React Query
• Providers for seamless authentication and access control flows
• Out-of-the-box support for live / real-time applications
• Easy audit logs & document versioning

Learning Refine CORE

• Navigate to the [Tutorial](https://refi