Assess
Reason for selection
Refine is OK but rigid; Payload gives a full admin UI, REST & GraphQL APIs, migrations and shared types—potentially one app instead of two.
Key questions
- Does it meet our admin-dashboard feature set (vs Django Admin, Refine)?
- Can we share types/schemas across the monorepo?
- Does it remove Refine's pain-points (re-typing, deep abstraction)?
Assessment approach
- Drop Payload into the mo-stack; spin up a demo project.
- Validate type-sharing and custom access-control patterns.
- Compare dev effort and UX with existing Refine builds.
Potential testers
- Any tech lead interested in admin tooling.