[🚀 Feature]: Use latest 18.x version

[apupier]

Feature and motivation

follow-up #12723

I think it will be nice to have it working with latest 18.x as currently blocked on 18.17.0

selenium/WORKSPACE

Line 235 in 10561bc

node_version = "18.17.0",

which is the latest version supported by bazelbuild/rules_nodejs 5.8.4 which is the latest 5.x version.

Usage example

It will allow to test with the LTS version which receives security updates.

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@apupier, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[apupier]

bazelbuild/rules_nodejs 6 has a reduced scope https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/tree/main#60-scope-reduction

aspect-build/rules_js is claiming to be an alternative https://github.com/aspect-build/rules_js#relationship-to-rules_nodejs

[apupier]

attempt to migrate: https://github.com/apupier/selenium/tree/13344-useLatest18 but currently failing with:

(base) apupier@localhost:~/git/selenium$ bazel build javascript/...
ERROR: Skipping 'javascript/...': error loading package under directory 'javascript': error loading package 'javascript/grid-ui': Unable to find package for @npm//react-scripts:index.bzl: The repository '@npm' could not be resolved: Repository '@npm' is not defined.
WARNING: Target pattern parsing failed.
ERROR: error loading package under directory 'javascript': error loading package 'javascript/grid-ui': Unable to find package for @npm//react-scripts:index.bzl: The repository '@npm' could not be resolved: Repository '@npm' is not defined.
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.094s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)
    currently loading: javascript/chrome-driver ... (7 packages)

[titusfortner]

Yes, migrating to rules_js is on our list of things to do:
https://github.com/orgs/SeleniumHQ/projects/2?pane=issue&itemId=43566772

[titusfortner]

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