Last week's refine ft Strapi event introduced developers to the powerful combination of refine, a React-based framework, and Strapi, a headless Content Management System (CMS), for building customizable applications, particularly a React PDF Invoice Generator. The event featured a series of articles detailing the use of these technologies alongside Ant Design to create an application capable of handling CRUD operations, user authentication, and PDF rendering. Refine simplifies CRUD web application development and supports integrations with various back-end services like Strapi, while Strapi offers a customizable admin panel and API for content management. Both technologies provide straightforward setup processes, with refine offering built-in connectors and Strapi enabling self-hosting or cloud deployment options. The tutorials showcased the practical applications of these tools for various professionals, including small business owners and freelancers, by guiding them through architecture, setup, CRUD implementation, and the addition of user authentication and PDF rendering to create a functional invoice generator application.