authentik/website/developer-docs/frontend-only-dev-environment.md

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Frontend-only development environment

If you want to only make changes on the UI, you don't need a backend running from source. You can user the docker-compose install with a few customizations.

1. Clone the git repo from https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik

2. In the cloned repository, follow the docker-compose installation instructions here

3. Add the following entry to your .env file:

   AUTHENTIK_WEB__LOAD_LOCAL_FILES=true
   AUTHENTIK_IMAGE=beryju.org/authentik/server
   AUTHENTIK_TAG=gh-next
   AUTHENTIK_OUTPOSTS__DOCKER_IMAGE_BASE=beryju.org/authentik/outpost-%(type)s:gh-next
   

   This will cause authentik to load static files from a folder and ignore the bundeled files. Also the beta image is used.

4. Add this volume mapping to your compose file

   version: '3.2'
   
   services:
     # [...]
     server:
       # [...]
       volumes:
         - ./web:/web
   

   This makes the local web files available to the authentik server.

5. Run docker-compose up -d to apply those changes to your containers.

6. Run make gen-web in the project root directory to generate the API Client used by the web interfaces

7. cd web

8. Run npm i and then npm run watch to start the build process.

You can now access authentik on http://localhost:9000 (or https://localhost:9443).

You might also want to complete the initial setup under /if/flow/initial-setup/.