Deterministic rendering

[astrojuanlu]

Description

I'm always frustrated when I do kedro viz run twice and each time the rendered DAG is different.

Context

I was reviewing #1966 and I wanted to see if the rendered pipeline is the same, but it's difficult because the sorting of the nodes can differ.

Checklist

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[ravi-kumar-pilla]

This will also enable having autoreload of Kedro-Viz in VSCode extension.

[astrojuanlu]

A bit of history: as far as I understand, this is where the algorithm was introduced #185

[astrojuanlu]

And I don't see any references to randomness in the original paper that defines the Cassowary algorithm https://doi.org/10.1145/504704.504705 and no mention in the kiwi.js repository either https://github.com/IjzerenHein/kiwi.js/ so my guess is that the randomness actually comes from Kedro Viz? 🤔