Today we are celebrating the new features of refine with this launch event. Last year was a landmark year for us since we watched refine grow from zero and establish itself as a prominent React framework.

It all started with a single question two years ago: "Is it possible for a low-code web framework to quickly generate CRUD applications while still allowing custom styling, logic and workflow?". None of the existing solutions could give us the amount of flexibility that we needed, so we started building one from scratch.

Today refine evolved into a full-blown framework for building CRUD applications like admin panels, dashboards, internal tools, and storefronts. It eliminates the repetitive tasks demanded by CRUD operations and saves days of development time.

With the new release, we add two new features to refine core

1- Inferencer @pankod/refine-inferencer is a package that provides a way to automatically generate views for resources based on the data structure. The aim is to reduce the amount of time spent on creating views for resources by generating the code automatically that can be customized easily.

2- Swizzle The swizzle is a command in refine-cli that allows you to customize the refine's supported components and data providers. It allows you to eject selected files from the refine packages and modify depending on your needs.

Unique "Headless UI" approach enables developers to use any UI framework or custom design without constraints. For convenience, refine is shipped with ready-made integrations with three powerful UI frameworks: Ant Design, Material UI & Mantine.

Being totally backend agnostic, refine can connect to 15+ backend services out-of-the-box, incl. custom REST & GraphQL API's. With refine, developers have 100% control over their projects as they may build, style and deploy the way they like.

And of course, we want to know what you think about refine and any ideas or suggestions you may have for our solution. Please write them and we'll be happy to join the conversation.

I spent the most time with Refine and Supabase, and up until a few days ago, it seemed like Refine would be what I stayed with. I think what Refine offers out of the box is excellent. The ability to stand up a custom CRUD interface with low effort is really useful. I do appreciate what the Refine team is building.

However, when it came time to add customization or additional features, I spent more time stumbling through the docs than building what I wanted/needed.

A few days ago, I ripped refine out of my project for a custom-built interface using a component library called Mantine. Maybe it's because I've been building stuff like this for a long time, but I built exactly what I needed without Refine in less time than it took to get to the same spot with Refine.

The new swizzle command could have solved some of my issues, but I'm too far gone to go back.

Is this a way of bringing that functionality to all these other frameworks as well? It seems compelling because the ability to build out crud resources with a single command is a huge accelerator in Rails projects.

Are there any videos of someone building projects with this? It's useful to see what takes time an what doesn't before committing to a framework like this.

Although its relatively recent emergence on the market, refine has quickly established itself as one of the fastest-growing frameworks, thanks to the support and enthusiasm of its great community. Having the invaluable support of prominent VC's and angel investors helps us to broaden our vision and set newer and higher goals we couldn't imagine before.

As it continues to grow and evolve, refine is becoming a one-stop solution for web application development, with the capability to handle an extensive range of use cases. Reaching this new level of success, vastly surpassing our origins as an admin panel creation tool, brings constant excitement to all of our stakeholders and serves as a source of motivation for us to develop innovative solutions for the industry.