Upgrade to React 19, Storybook 8, and Node 22

[Aryan-Verma-999]

Upgrade to React 19, Storybook 8, and Node 22

This PR modernizes the EmbeddedChat core infrastructure by upgrading the foundational stack to React 19 and Storybook 8, while aligning the development environment with Node 22 (LTS).

Acceptance Criteria fulfillment

• React 19 Upgrade: Bumped react and react-dom to v19.0.0 across all packages.
• Node 22 (LTS): Updated .nvmrc and workspace engine requirements to Node 22.
• Storybook 8: Migrated UI documentation and component stories to Storybook 8.
• Component Optimization: Refactored LoginForm to use useRef for input state management, significantly reducing unnecessary re-renders.
• DDP Connection Resilience: Implemented a connection promise guard in EmbeddedChatApi to prevent race conditions and redundant connection attempts (critical for React 19 StrictMode behavior).
• Rendering Logic: Updated ChatInput, ChatBody, and message handling to resolve issues stemming from React 19's updated rendering engine and lifecycle changes.

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PR Test Details

All core features, including authentication, messaging, and real-time updates, have been verified as working.

Note: The file upload functionality is currently excluded from this PR as it is being resolved separately in PR #1231.

Note: The PR will be ready for live testing at https://rocketchat.github.io/EmbeddedChat/pulls/pr-1291 after approval. Contributors are requested to replace <pr_number> with the actual PR number.

[Spiral-Memory]

Looks good! Excellent and clean work. I appreciate it. Please address the minor comments. Thanks.

[Spiral-Memory]

Please fix build and lint and playwright test failures

[Spiral-Memory]

Build and lint still fails because of format check, can you please use prettier

[Aryan-Verma-999]

done

[Spiral-Memory]

done

Playwright is still failing

[Spiral-Memory]

LGTM

[Spiral-Memory]

@Aryan-Verma-999, please resolve the docs dependency and any other dependencies required for this PR to prevent repeated trial-and-error cycles as Build PR Preview is failing now. Also, ensure the README and other documentation files are updated to reflect the new versions.

[Aryan-Verma-999]

hi sorry for the inconvenience, i will keep this in mind from now on.
i have ran all the tests locally
this should pass now

[Spiral-Memory]

hi sorry for the inconvenience, i will keep this in mind from now on. i have ran all the tests locally this should pass now

No worries @Aryan-Verma-999

[Spiral-Memory]

🎉 Congratulations on your first PR merge in GSoC, @Aryan-Verma-999
Great work on this achievement 👏 Wishing you all the best for your future goals and many more successful merges ahead

[Aryan-Verma-999]

Thank you so much! 🚀