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refine

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Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously refine, Refine

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Civan Ozseyhan

Founder

Serial entrepreneur & Open-source enthusiast | 15+ years experience in building enterprise software | Co-founder & CEO @ refine

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Omer Aplak

Founder

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

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Eren Erkalkan

Founder

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.

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
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