1. Adding List Page

First, let's create our file under the src/pages/blog-posts folder. We will name it list.tsx. Then, we will copy the list page code generated by Inferencer and paste it into the file.

To copy the code and paste it into the file, follow the steps below:

1. Navigate to the localhost:3000/blog-posts in your browser.

2. Click on the "Show Code" button in the bottom right corner of the page.

3. You can see the list page code generated by Inferencer. Click on the "Copy" button to copy the code.

4. Paste the code into the you created, list.tsx file.

You can see the list page code generated by Inferencer below:

Instead of coding the list page component from scratch, Inferencer created the required code base on API response, so that we can customize.

We will go through the list page hooks one by one.

• useTable hook, imported from @pankod/refine-react-table package, has been developed by using the TanStack Table v8 package and useTable hook imported from @pankod/refine-core package.

  It provides all the features of the useTable hook from @pankod/refine-core package as well as the useTable hook from TanStack Table v8 package.

  It is used to fetch the data and manage the table state.

  Refer to the @pankod/refine-react-table useTable documentation for more information →

  Refer to the TanStack Table v8 documentation for more information →

• useNavigation is a refine hook that is used to navigate between pages. In this case, we are using it to navigate to the edit and show pages when the user clicks on the edit and show buttons in the table.

  Refer to the useNavigation documentation for more information →

Each blog post includes the category field which has id property. This is a foreign key that points to the categories resource which is different than "blog_post" resource.

There is a title field In the categories resource. To display the category title in the table, we can use the useMany hook provided by refine.

This hook allows us to fetch data for multiple records in a single request by providing the id's of the related records. In this case, we need to provide the id's of the blog posts categories. It is particularly useful when we need to fetch related data for multiple records.

Refer to the useMany documentation for more information →

In this tutorial, each blog post record has a category field as below:

{
  ...
  "category": {
    "id": 1
  }
  ...
},
{
  ...
  "category": {
    "id": 2
  }
  ...
}

We can use the useMany hook to fetch the full category records for each of these blog posts, like this:

import { useMany } from "@pankod/refine-core";

const { data } = useMany({
  resource: "categories",
  ids: blogPosts.map((blogPost) => blogPost.category.id),
});

This will pass the resource and ids to the dataProvider's getMany function. The dataProvider will then make a single request to the API to fetch the full records for each category related to the blog posts. The resulting data variable will be an array of category records, like this:

[
  {
    id: 1,
    title: "mock category title",
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    title: "another mock category title",
  },
];

We can then use this data array to display the title of each category in the table.

Now that we have created the list page, we need to add it to the App.tsx file.

1. Open src/App.tsx file on your editor.

2. Import the created BlogPostList component.

3. Replace the HeadlessInferencer component with the BlogPostList component.

import { Refine } from "@pankod/refine-core";
import routerProvider from "@pankod/refine-react-router-v6";
import dataProvider from "@pankod/refine-simple-rest";
import { HeadlessInferencer } from "@pankod/refine-inferencer/headless";

import { BlogPostList } from "pages/blog-posts/list";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <Refine
      routerProvider={routerProvider}
      dataProvider={dataProvider("https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev")}
      resources={[
        {
          name: "blog_posts",
          list: BlogPostList,
          show: HeadlessInferencer,
          create: HeadlessInferencer,
          edit: HeadlessInferencer,
        },
      ]}
    />
  );
};
export default App;

Now, we can see the list page in the browser at localhost:3000/blog-posts