Ant Design Migration Guide | Upgrading to Refine v4

Ant Design released a new major version, v5. This document will help you upgrade from antd 4.x version to antd 5.x version.

Ant Design removed less and adopted CSS-in-JS for better support of dynamic themes. So now, the bottom layer uses @ant-design/cssinjs instead of less as a solution.

Some components were removed or renamed, and some APIs are changed.

Some of the changes are:

• <PageHeader> component moved into @ant-design/pro-components. Refine is using <PageHeader> in <List>, <Create>, <Edit>, <Show> components and added as a dependency. You don't need to install @ant-design/pro-components package manually.
• <Comment> component moved into @ant-design/compatible.
• moment.js is replaced with day.js.
• less is removed from antd package.

For more information, please refer to Ant Design's own migration guide.

:::info A little more clarification

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Updating the packages

@refinedev/antd must be updated to 4.x.x

<Tabs defaultValue="refine-cli" values={[ {label: 'Refine CLI', value: 'refine-cli'}, {label: 'Manual', value: 'manual'}, ]}>

⚡️ You can easily update Refine packages with the Refine CLI update command.

npm run refine update

How to add Refine CLI to an existing project?

npm i @refinedev/antd@latest

🪄 Migrating your project automatically with Codemod ✨ (recommended)

@refinedev/codemod package handles the breaking changes for your project automatically, migrating your @refinedev/antd version from 3.x.x to 4.x.x. without any manual steps

Just cd into root folder of your project (where package.json is contained) and run this command:

npx @refinedev/codemod antd4-to-antd5

And it's done. Now your project uses @refinedev/[email protected].

🚨 The Customized or swizzled components and .less files cannot be migrated automatically. You need to migrate them manually.

Migrating your project manually

Updating Imports

• CSS files are no longer included in package. Since CSS-in-JS supports importing on demand, the original styles/antd.less has also been abandoned. If you need to reset some basic styles, please import @refinedev/antd/dist/reset.css

- import "@refinedev/antd/dist/styles.min.css";
+ import "@refinedev/antd/dist/reset.css";

Updating Props

actionButtons and pageHeaderProps props was deprecated on @refinedev/[email protected] and has been removed on @refinedev/[email protected] from <List>, <Create>, <Edit>, <Show> component due to inconsistency with all UI packages. Use the headerButtons and headerProps props instead.

- <List actionButtons={actionButtons} pageHeaderProps={pageHeaderProps}>
+ <List headerButtons={actionButtons} headerProps={pageHeaderProps}>

- <Create actionButtons={actionButtons} pageHeaderProps={pageHeaderProps}>
+ <Create headerButtons={actionButtons} headerProps={pageHeaderProps}>

- <Show actionButtons={actionButtons} pageHeaderProps={pageHeaderProps}>
+ <Show headerButtons={actionButtons} headerProps={pageHeaderProps}>

- <Edit actionButtons={actionButtons} pageHeaderProps={pageHeaderProps}>
+ <Edit headerButtons={actionButtons} headerProps={pageHeaderProps}>

Customized <Sider>

If you have customized or swizzled the <Sider> component, there may be a color mismatch issue. You can give theme dark to the <Menu> component in the <Sider> component.

    <AntdLayout.Sider
      collapsible
      collapsed={collapsed}
      onCollapse={(collapsed: boolean): void => setCollapsed(collapsed)}
      collapsedWidth={isMobile ? 0 : 80}
      breakpoint='lg'
      style={isMobile ? antLayoutSiderMobile : antLayoutSider}>
      <RenderToTitle collapsed={collapsed} />
      <Menu
+       theme='dark'
        selectedKeys={[selectedKey]}
        defaultOpenKeys={defaultOpenKeys}
        mode='inline'
        onClick={() => {
          if (!breakpoint.lg) {
            setCollapsed(true)
          }
        }}>
        {renderSider()}
      </Menu>
    </AntdLayout.Sider>

Customized <Header>

:::caution

If you have customized or swizzled the <Header> component, there may be a color mismatch issue.

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You can remove constant background color in <Header> component:

   <AntdLayout.Header
      style={{
        display: 'flex',
        justifyContent: 'flex-end',
        alignItems: 'center',
        padding: '0px 24px',
        height: '64px',
-       backgroundColor: '#FFF',
      }}>

LESS Users

Ant Design removed less, uses and recommends CSS-in-JS instead. You need to manually migrate your .less files to CSS-in-JS. Ant Design's documentation for less migration.

Known Issues

Compile errors

Some users reported (issue#1, issue#2) compile errors after upgrading from @refinedev/[email protected] to @refinedev/[email protected]. They also provided solutions.

Solution 1

1. remove node_modules folder
2. remove package-lock.json file
3. npm install

Solution 2

npm install react@latest react-dom@latest