React Flow auto layout with dagre for custom, variable-size nodes
Variable-size nodes break dagre's centering, first paint flickers, and straight chains render with kinked edges. Here is the why and the fix for each. Every React Flow and dagre tutorial shows the same thing: uniform gray boxes, laid out in a neat tree, everything centered. You copy the pattern, wire it up, and it works. Then you replace the gray boxes with real cards. A title that wraps to two…
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