Validate kedro viz run --lite with users

[ravi-kumar-pilla]

Description

This is to document and promote kedro viz run with --lite option.

Context

The --lite option for Kedro Viz was introduced in v10.0.0.

Some related tickets for devs: #1966, #2077

Some available docs and references:

• Visualization doc
• CLI doc
• Slack reference

Promotion steps till now:

• Mentioned in the release notes during slack announcement
• Kedro Coffee chat session

Possible Implementation

• Improve docs elaborating what minimum requirements are needed for lite mode
• Write a blog post
• Interview users
• [TBD]

Checklist

• Include labels so that we can categorise your feature request

[astrojuanlu]

To clarify, documentation about this already exists https://docs.kedro.org/projects/kedro-viz/en/stable/kedro-viz_visualisation.html#visualise-a-kedro-project-without-installing-project-dependencies

We agreed to do some user validation first. Some specific steps

• prepare Docker image inspired by https://kedro.hall.community/running-kedroviz-on-docker-without-installing-the-library-H0d61LTldx29#2b9c7a60-983f-43a2-abdb-1b513c422a92
• ask for feedback on #user-research
• dump here a mini synthesis of our findings (or lack thereof)

[astrojuanlu]

See a user still unable to make it work #2231

[ravi-kumar-pilla]

See a user still unable to make it work #2231

Hi @astrojuanlu , I will reach out to the user and see what the issue is. From the error message it seems the file parsing has issues. The immediate action we can do is improve the error message specifying which file was having issues. File parsing can be tricky if the file isn't UTF-8 encoded. I will update here once I speak to the user. Thank you