Disable experiment tracking and publishing for static build

[sbrugman]

Description

When serving a project statically via kedro viz build, I would like to turn off unused features:

• Experiment Tracking
• Publish and Share pipeline
• Autoreload

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[astrojuanlu]

Hi @sbrugman, thanks for opening this issue. Another comment by @datajoely in a similar vein:

As a user of the react component I want to disable both left and right sidebars since I intend to use this as an embedded element with a narrow viewport.

You might be aware that we're considering dropping experiment tracking altogether #1624

Having said that, this goes a bit beyond exp tracking, because you also mentioned other features you want to turn off. So let me share my thoughts about what you describe here.

There's two ways to look at this feature request: additive or subtractive.

• Subtractive: Kedro-Viz, minus XYZ (this issue)
• Additive: Only the flow chart, plus potentially XYZ. Related: #1745, #1744, #1668 (already closed, but with leftover ideas)

I am personally much more interested in "progressive enhancement" and modularity than in "graceful degradation".

[rashidakanchwala]

Currently hosted Kedro-Viz doesn't have any of the options you listed actually. So I am a bit confused

[rashidakanchwala]

@sbrugman -- can u clarify a bit more?

[sbrugman]

Latest release shows the experiment tracking (build/index.html):

kedro viz build

kedro-viz 8.0.1 python 3.10 kedro, version 0.19.2

Did anything change in main since then? I've tried installing from source using:

pip install https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-viz/archive/refs/heads/main.zip#subdirectory=package

However, this complains about missing files:

     FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:                                                                                                          
                             '.../lib/python3.10/site-packages/kedro_viz/html/index.html'    

[rashidakanchwala]

interesting, are you trying to run this locally?? Our current checks in Kedro-Viz involve disabling Experiment Tracking and the Publish and Share pipeline when it detects that Kedro-Viz is not running locally but is hosted

[astrojuanlu]

I've tried installing from source using:

This is the topic of https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-viz/issues/1611

[astrojuanlu]

See also https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-viz/discussions/1943