Add Angular 18 support

[laurentgrangier]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Angular 18 will be released in the week of 20.05.2024 (https://angular.io/guide/releases). The library should supports the new version.

Describe the solution you'd like

Support for Angular 18.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No alternative.

Framework

Angular

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[laurentgrangier]

I'm already working to add support for Angular 18. Here is my first findings:

• Angular 18 needs Typescript 5.2.x. Typescript should be updated to all modules. Support for Angular 16 must be dropped because it needs Typescript >=4.9.3 <5.1.0.
• zone.js must be updated to 0.14.0.

[laurentgrangier]

When running test for angular-material, I get lot of the following error:

Error: NG0402: A required Injectable was not found in the dependency injection tree. If you are bootstrapping an NgModule, make sure that the `BrowserModule` is imported.      
        error properties: Object({ code: 402 })

If I move the code from angular-test to angular-material directly, the tests run. I wonder why the angular-test package is needed, since it is only used from angular-material. Should we not simply move all the code from angular-test to angular-material?

@JBBianchi Since you did the previous Angular upgrade. Maybe you can help here?

[JBBianchi]

I must admit I didn't understand either what was the use of having a specific module angular-test if it's only use in one other module anyways. I don't have a lot of time currently but I can try to have a look in the next weeks.

[sdirix]

Hi! Thanks for raising this issue and proactively working on it :+1:

The Angular test package is only there for historic reasons, I don't see a problem with removing it if it makes the overall task easier.