Why I Built ng-prism - An Angular-Native Storybook Alternative With Zero Story Files

It sounds like ng-prism is a specialized tool for creating showcases and documentation for Angular components, designed to integrate seamlessly with the Angular ecosystem. Here's a summary of its key features and benefits:

1. Angular Integration: Unlike Storybook which aims to be framework-agnostic, ng-prism integrates directly with Angular, making it easier to showcase complex patterns that rely on Angular-specific features like dependency injection or signals.

2. Decorator-Based Configuration: Components are marked for showcasing using a decorator (@Showcase), and configuration is done through TypeScript rather than separate story files. This keeps the documentation in sync with your codebase automatically.

3. Component Variants & Content Projection: Supports showcasing different variants of components, including how they handle content projection (e.g., <ng-content>).

4. Custom Pages & Component Pages: Allows for creating free-form Angular components or static custom pages to document patterns that don't fit into individual component showcases.

5. Official Plugins: Provides a range of plugins to extend functionality, such as adding documentation, examples, and interactive features directly within the showcase environment.

6. Content Projection & Directive Hosting: Supports showcasing directives by specifying host elements, making it easier to demonstrate how directives interact with components

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