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 The login app live-reloads on changes, so you can start developing right away.
 
-The login app live-reloads on changes, so you can start developing right away.
-
-### <a name="local"></a>Developing Against A Locally Compiled Zitadel
-
-To develop against a locally compiled version of Zitadel, you need to build the Zitadel docker image first.
-Clone the [Zitadel repository](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel.git) and run the following command from its root:
-
-```sh
-# This compiles a Zitadel binary if it does not exist at ./zitadel already and copies it into a Docker image.
-# If you want to recompile the binary, run `make compile` first
-make login_dev
-```
-
-Open another terminal session at zitadel/zitadel/login and run the following commands to start the dev server.
-
-```bash
-# Install dependencies. Developing requires Node.js v20
-pnpm install
-
-# Start a local development server and have apps/login/.env.test.local configured for you to target the local Zitadel instance.
-NODE_ENV=test pnpm dev
-```
-
-Log in at https://127.0.0.1.sslip.io/ui/v2/login/loginname and use the following credentials:
-**Loginname**: *zitadel-admin@zitadel.127.0.0.1.sslip.io*
-**Password**: *Password1!*.
-
-The login app live-reloads on changes, so you can start developing right away.
-
 ### Quality Assurance
 
 Use `make` commands to test the quality of your code against a production build without installing any dependencies besides Docker.