This is one of those stupid bugs that drive web developers crazy. The basics are straightforward: when you cause a higher-level component to have a "big enough re-render," for some unknown definition of "big enough," it will re-render the sub-components. In traditional web interaction, those components should never be re-rendered while the user is interacting with the form, but in frameworks where there's dynamic re-arrangement, part or all of the form could get re-rendered at any mmoment. Since neither the form nor any of its intermediaries is tracking the values as they're changed, it's up to the components themselves to keep the user's input-- and to be hardened against property changes coming from the outside world. So static memoization of the initial value passed in, and aggressively walling off the values the customer generates from that field, are needed to protect the user's work from any framework's dynamic DOM management. I remember struggling with this in React; I had hoped Lit was better, but in this case, not better enough. The protocol for "is it an ak-data-control" is "it has a `json()` method that returns the data ready to be sent to the authentik server." I missed that in one place, so that's on me.
What is authentik?
authentik is an open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility. It can be seamlessly integrated into existing environments to support new protocols. authentik is also a great solution for implementing sign-up, recovery, and other similar features in your application, saving you the hassle of dealing with them.
Installation
For small/test setups it is recommended to use Docker Compose; refer to the documentation.
For bigger setups, there is a Helm Chart here. This is documented here.
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Development
Security
See SECURITY.md
Adoption and Contributions
Your organization uses authentik? We'd love to add your logo to the readme and our website! Email us @ hello@goauthentik.io or open a GitHub Issue/PR! For more information on how to contribute to authentik, please refer to our CONTRIBUTING.md file.



