Demo Mode — zero-dependency demo

DEMO_MODE=true (the default) needs no Docker, no Postgres, no Redis, and no Entra app. Sign-in is bypassed with a demo engineer, and every screen is served from in-memory fixture data, so the console is instantly clickable.

This is the fastest way to see what PatchPilot looks like, click through every page, and get a feel for the navigation before deciding whether to connect a real tenant.

Prerequisites

• Node 22+
• pnpm 9+

Run it

pnpm install
pnpm dev          # web + api + worker, hot reload, DEMO_MODE on by default

• Web console: http://localhost:5173 (Vite proxies /api and /auth through to the API)
• API: http://localhost:4000

That’s it — no .env file is required to run this path.

What’s real and what isn’t

Everything you see is fictional sample data: tenants, devices, vulnerabilities, jobs. No Microsoft 365 tenant is connected, and nothing you click sends a real request anywhere outside your machine.

The demo bypass and in-memory data are gated strictly on DEMO_MODE, and that gate cannot be tricked into activating in production — a production instance always runs with DEMO_MODE=false.

Next step

When you’re ready to connect a real tenant, move on to Development with real infra or Production deploy, or jump straight to the Azure one-click deploy if you don’t want to provision a server by hand.