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Omer Aplak — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:45:19 +0000

Building a ChatGPT App with VoltAgent and the Apps SDK

Ekim Cem Ülger ・ Oct 15

#agents #mcp #chatgpt #voltagent

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Omer Aplak — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:33:16 +0000

Necati Özmen for VoltAgent

Jun 18 '25

🚀 VoltAgent Launch Week #1 — What’s New?

#webdev #beginners #llm #ai

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Build your next admin panel in 5 minutes!

Omer Aplak — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:35:01 +0000

[GitHub](https://github.com/pankod/refine) | [Tutorial](https://refine.dev/docs) | [Demo](https://example.refine.dev)

What is refine?

refine offers lots of out-of-the box functionality for rapid development, without compromising extreme customizability. Use-cases include, but are not limited to admin panels, B2B applications and dashboards.

Your API is supported, out of the box! Connects to any REST or GraphQL custom backend.

Built-in support for
NestJs CRUD, Airtable, Strapi, Strapi GraphQL, Supabase, and Altogic.

Motivation

Higher-level frontend frameworks can save you a lot time, but they typically offer you a trade-off between speed and flexibility.

After many years of experience in developing B2B frontend applications and working with popular frameworks, we came up with a new approach to tackle this dilemma. This is how refine is born.

refine is a collection of helper hooks, components and providers. They are all decoupled from your UI components and business logic, so they never keep you from customizing your UI or coding your own flow.

As refine is totally unopinionated about UI and logic, it's strongly opinionated about three parts of your application:

API Networking
State Management
Authentication & Authorization

We believe, these are the most important components of a data-intensive frontend application and should be handled in a robust way by leveraging industry best practices.

refine guarantees you a perfect implementation of these building blocks in your project, so you can focus on your development.

Architechture

refine makes extensive use of hooks as a default way for interacting with your components.
Under the hood, refine relies heavily to React Query for data handling, caching and state management.
Access to external sources and API's happen via providers which are basically plug-in type components for extendibility.

Key features

⚙️ Zero-configuration: One-line setup with superplate. It takes less than a minute to start a project.

📦 Out-of-the-box : Routing, networking, authentication, state management, i18n and UI.

🔌 Backend Agnostic : Connects to any custom backend. Built-in support for REST API, GraphQL, NestJs CRUD, Airtable, Strapi, Strapi GraphQL, Supabase and Altogic.

📝 Native Typescript Core : You can always opt out for plain Javascript.

🔘 Decoupled UI : UI components are exposed directly without encapsulation. You have full control on UI elements.

🐜 Powerful Default UI : Works seamlessly with integrated Ant Design System. (Support for multiple UI frameworks is on the Roadmap)

📝 Boilerplate-free Code : Keeps your codebase clean and readable.

Links

GitHub | Tutorial | Demo

superplate - Performance-oriented Frontend application creator with popular tools

Omer Aplak — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:32:09 +0000

It has been a long time since we started the next-boilerplate project. We are proud that it helped many frontend developers around the globe to speed up their frontend development cycles.

In time, we took valuable lessons from our experience and the community feedback:

There are infinite number of frontend technologies and it's impossible to combine everything in a single boilerplate product.
The project is hard to maintain with tons of external dependencies.

To tackle the complexity problem we started a new project from scratch. We call it "superplate" - the frontend boilerplate with superpowers.

superplate is designed to save you hours of development time when starting a new project. superplate is offering various plugins/tools you can choose from but It's super-easy for you to modify those plugins or create your own ones. Once you are done, you can share your plugins and set superplate up to use your custom plugins.

superplate's default framework is Next.js. More framework targets are coming soon.

You may checkout the project from the repo page or documentation.