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---
title: Frontend development environment
sidebar_label: Frontend development
tags:
- development
- contributor
- frontend
- docker
---
If you're focusing solely on frontend development, you can create a minimal development environment using Docker and Node.js. This setup allows you to make and preview changes to the frontend in real-time, without needing to interact with the backend.
### Prerequisites
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en) (24 or later)
- [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) (Latest Community Edition or Docker Desktop)
- [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) (Compose v2)
- [Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/) (3 or later)
:::info
Depending on platform, some native dependencies might be required. On macOS, run `brew install node@24`, and for Docker `brew install --cask docker`
:::
### Instructions
1. Clone the Git repo to your development machine and navigate to the authentik directory.
```shell
git clone https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik
cd authentik
```
:::info Beta images
By default, authentik will use the latest stable Docker images.
You can opt into using beta images during development by creating a `.env` file in the root of the repository with the following variables:
```shell
AUTHENTIK_IMAGE=ghcr.io/goauthentik/dev-server
AUTHENTIK_TAG=gh-next
AUTHENTIK_OUTPOSTS__CONTAINER_IMAGE_BASE=ghcr.io/goauthentik/dev-%(type)s:gh-next
AUTHENTIK_LOG_LEVEL=debug
```
:::
2. From the cloned repository, follow the Docker Compose [installation instructions](../../install-config/install/docker-compose.mdx).
3. Create a Docker Compose override to mount the local configuration file (`local.env.yml`) and ESBuild's output directory (`web`).
```yaml title="docker-compose.override.yml"
services:
server:
volumes:
- ./web:/web
- ./local.env.yml:/local.env.yml
```
By creating this file in the root of the repository, Docker will automatically mount the web files generated by the build process. The `local.env.yml` mount is optional, but allows you to override the default configuration.
4. From the cloned repository root, install the front-end dependencies using NPM.
```shell
cd web
npm ci
```
5. From the cloned repository root, run the front-end build script.
```shell
make web-watch
```
6. In a new terminal, navigate to the cloned repository root and start the backend containers with Docker Compose.
```shell
docker compose up
```
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/`.