[Angular] Upgrade to version 18

[illiakovalenko]

• This PR follows the Contribution Guide
• Changelog updated
• Upgrade guide entry added

Description / Motivation

Upgraded Angular to version 18:

• Support CanActivate RedirectCommand API
• CanActivate and CanResolve now also accept router as a parameter, giving accessibility to router instance in function-based implementations

Testing Details

• Unit Test Added
• Manual Test/Other (Please elaborate)

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

[art-alexeyenko]

Please check the UrlTree related changes from upgrade guide:

When a guard returns a UrlTree as a redirect, the redirecting navigation will now use replaceUrl if the initial navigation was also using the replaceUrl option. If you prefer the previous behavior, configure the redirect using the new NavigationBehaviorOptions by returning a RedirectCommand with the desired options instead of UrlTree.

and

Route guards and resolvers can now return a RedirectCommand object in addition to a UrlTree and boolean. Any code which reads Route objects directly and expects only boolean or UrlTree may need to update to account for RedirectCommand as well.

Client navigation fails currently for monorepo xmcloud setup, I think it may be related. And I also believe we need to accound for RedirectCommand in guard resolver.

[illiakovalenko]

Client navigation fails currently for monorepo xmcloud setup, I think it may be related. And I also believe we need to accound for RedirectCommand in guard resolver.

@art-alexeyenko How did you reproduce? I scaffolded angular, angular-xmcloud in monorepo and it works as expected and connected to Basic site on staging env. Tested both "connected" and "production" modes - works as expected

[illiakovalenko]

And I also believe we need to accound for RedirectCommand in guard resolver.

@art-alexeyenko I introduced support for RedirectCommand, however I consider it as a new feature rather than a required part of the upgrade. In any case I decided to introduce that

[art-alexeyenko]

This looks great, thank you Illia