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React Flow Auto Layout with ELK, Dagre, and d3-hierarchy
Compare layout engines for directed graphs, trees, and mixed diagrams — and where to run layout in the pipeline.
Manual drag is not enough for imports from JSON, OpenAPI, or Terraform graphs. ELK handles layered graphs well; Dagre is lighter for simple DAGs; d3-hierarchy excels at trees.
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