Summary

Refine is a React meta-framework designed for building data-intensive web applications such as internal tools, admin panels, and B2B apps. It provides a headless architecture, allowing developers to integrate with various UI frameworks and data sources. Refine streamlines development by offering solutions for authentication, routing, state management, and more, enabling highly customizable applications.

Features
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Must Have

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API & Database Integrations

Code Customization

Access Control & Security

Drag-and-Drop UI Builder

Flexible Deployments

Other

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Debugging & Monitoring

Version Control Integration

Audit Logs & Analytics

Workflow Automation

Mobile-Responsive Support

Prebuilt React Components

Custom Theming & Branding

Partner & Customer Portals

AI-Generated App Assistant

Rationale

Refine is a React meta-framework for building CRUD-heavy web applications, including internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, and B2B apps. It offers core hooks and components for authentication, access control, routing, networking, state management, and i18n. Refine's headless architecture allows integration with various UI frameworks and platforms, and it provides data providers for different backends (REST, GraphQL, Supabase, Strapi, etc.). While it doesn't explicitly mention a drag-and-drop UI builder, it emphasizes building highly customizable applications with UI frameworks and components, and it provides templates that demonstrate pre-built UI elements. The platform supports code customization, various integrations, security features like access control and authentication, and offers features like audit logs, workflow automation (through its nature as a framework for building apps), and mobile responsiveness through its React foundation.