feat(ui): pxce implemented, local setup for remote zitadel in both au…

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…th modes

What

Switch the UI's OIDC login to the authorization code flow with PKCE so it works as a
public (native) client against our zitadel, and add a dev target to run against it.
Relates to odd internal #62

Why

Adding the solar UI to the demo cluster and integrate it against zitadel

Testing

• make test
• Manual against https://zitadel.opendefense.cloud both auth modes:
  make ui-dev-zitadel ZITADEL_USER=you@example.com (impersonate) and the same with
  ZITADEL_AUTH_MODE=token. Login, /api/auth/me, and the catalog/targets pages all work.

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Checklist

• Tests added/updated
• No breaking changes (or upgrade path documented above)
• Readable commit history (squashed and cleaned up as desired)
• AI code review considered and comments resolved

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added secure OIDC sign-in for public clients using PKCE, without requiring a client secret.
  • Added support for connecting local UI development to remote Zitadel authentication.
  • Added configurable UI development and browser test ports.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for remote Zitadel-based frontend development and authentication modes.
  • Added production Web UI installation instructions for OIDC, PKCE, port forwarding, and API-server configuration.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of authentication state and PKCE verification during sign-in callbacks.

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The change adds PKCE support for public OIDC clients, remote Zitadel UI development targets, local issuer-trust configuration, configurable UI ports, and related developer and operator documentation.

Changes

Zitadel UI authentication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
PKCE authentication and state storage pkg/ui/auth/oidc.go, pkg/ui/session/store.go	OIDC login generates an S256 PKCE verifier and stores it with the state cookie. Callback handling retrieves the verifier and submits it during token exchange. Empty client secrets configure public-client authentication.
Authentication behavior validation pkg/ui/auth/*_test.go, pkg/ui/session/store_test.go	Tests validate PKCE state handling, authorization parameters, verifier submission, claims without groups, state errors, and NoopProvider behavior.
Local Zitadel issuer configuration hack/trust-zitadel-issuer.sh	The script validates the local cluster, creates or updates Zitadel authentication configuration, and checks API-server reload results.
Zitadel UI development workflow Makefile, docs/developer-guide/frontend-development.md, docs/operator-manual/installation/installation.md	The Makefile adds UI_DEV_PORT, Zitadel settings, and ui-dev-zitadel. Documentation covers remote Zitadel development and production OIDC installation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c3a50

The PR enables PKCE-based OIDC login and adds Zitadel development setup. It remains mergeable with explicit owner awareness because token-mode setup may falsely report completion if configuration reload is not confirmed, and malformed callback state may proceed to the code exchange instead of being rejected.

Suggested reviewers: olzemal

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant OIDCHandlers
  participant SessionStore
  participant Zitadel
  Browser->>OIDCHandlers: Start login
  OIDCHandlers->>SessionStore: Store state and PKCE verifier
  OIDCHandlers->>Browser: Redirect with S256 challenge
  Browser->>Zitadel: Authorize
  Browser->>OIDCHandlers: Return authorization code
  OIDCHandlers->>SessionStore: Read state and verifier
  OIDCHandlers->>Zitadel: Exchange code with verifier

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In `@docs/developer-guide/frontend-development.md`:
- Around line 84-97: Convert both fenced Bash examples in the Zitadel
development documentation to the repository’s required indented code-block
style, preserving their commands and formatting. Update the examples near the
ui-dev-zitadel invocation and ZITADEL_AUTH_MODE=token invocation only.

In `@hack/trust-zitadel-issuer.sh`:
- Around line 88-90: Update the reload-wait loop in trust-zitadel-issuer.sh so
reaching the “No reload logged” path exits with failure instead of success when
a changed configuration cannot be confirmed as reloaded. Preserve the existing
idempotent-success handling at the earlier line 58 path.

In `@pkg/ui/session/store.go`:
- Around line 246-251: Update the cookie parsing logic around strings.Cut to
return empty values when either the state or PKCE verifier is empty, rejecting
inputs such as “state:”. Add a focused test covering the state: cookie case and
preserve valid state/verifier parsing.

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Not for this PR, just noting it: auth_test.go covers noop.go, oidc.go and newHTTPClient in one file. Convention is to mirror the source -> oidc_test.go + noop_test.go, suite_test.go stays the ginkgo entrypoint. pkg/ui/session next door already does it that way. Nothing breaks either way, just inconsistent.

Pre-existing, you only added specs to it so I guess its naturally grown :D -> leave it here, maybe we can track this in a separate issue

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Not for this PR, just noting it: auth_test.go covers noop.go, oidc.go and newHTTPClient in one file. Convention is to mirror the source -> oidc_test.go + noop_test.go, suite_test.go stays the ginkgo entrypoint. pkg/ui/session next door already does it that way. Nothing breaks either way, just inconsistent.

Pre-existing, you only added specs to it so I guess its naturally grown :D -> leave it here, maybe we can track this in a separate issue

the noop tests are a very small subset and easy to factor out, so i did. No need for a whole separate task :)

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In `@Makefile`:
- Line 273: Update the Playwright configuration and e2e specs to read the UI
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- Around line 46-54: Strengthen the callback test in the “establishes a session
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- Around line 56-59: Update the WrapConfig test to snapshot the initialized
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