Hi, react-admin core developer here. My opinion is that Refine is a copycat of react-admin with deceptive marketing practices and no soul.
- their API and code is a carbon copy of react-admin
- most features are half finished
- their benchmark is laughable if you look at the details
- they raised 1M$ and only sell mugs - watch out for the moment investor ask for they money back ("everything is free" isn't a good sign IMHO)
- they use the money to buy followers on social networks with contests
On the other hand, react-admin is mature (5+ years, ~4000 closed issues, huge unit test coverage and documentation), has passed breakeven point, and powers 3,000 new applications each month. It's published and supported by marmelab, a 10-year old company that has more than 70,000 stars across many projects on Github, and with very strong values (https://marmelab.com/en/values).
Hey,
Despite the fact that many your claims are baseless or unjustified, we appreciate your feedback and willingness to share your opinions with us. Any constructive criticism without unfair accusations is always very valuable to us.
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.
refine is %100 open source. It provides all enterprise features of React Admin for free. Additionaly, refine has more features that React Admin enterprise doesn't have.
fzaninotto|3 years ago
- their API and code is a carbon copy of react-admin
- most features are half finished
- their benchmark is laughable if you look at the details
- they raised 1M$ and only sell mugs - watch out for the moment investor ask for they money back ("everything is free" isn't a good sign IMHO)
- they use the money to buy followers on social networks with contests
On the other hand, react-admin is mature (5+ years, ~4000 closed issues, huge unit test coverage and documentation), has passed breakeven point, and powers 3,000 new applications each month. It's published and supported by marmelab, a 10-year old company that has more than 70,000 stars across many projects on Github, and with very strong values (https://marmelab.com/en/values).
Prefer the original ;)
omeraplak|3 years ago
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.
omeraplak|3 years ago
You can take a look at the comparison table: https://refine.dev/docs/comparison/
dalmo3|3 years ago
maxloh|3 years ago