Preview a Forge component's public elements before installation
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When checking a forge component, the only way to inspect what this component offers (screens, server and service actions, blocks, entities, etc...) is to install the component first. It often happens that the component in question is not what a developer wanted or had in mind.

Showing a structure view of a component's public elements directly in the Forge Component's detail page, before downloading, would make it much easier for us to be able to assess preliminarily whether a component fits our needs or not, without having to download it first.

The idea is to have this step automated, without having to rely on the manual documentation (that often is missing from components), similar to the automatic documentation that Outdoc offers for target applications but of course that exact level of detail won't be necessary.

A high-level preview of the elements would perhaps be enough.