esbuild should be a regular dependency, not a peerDependency, in @nx/angular

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Current Behavior

Given I have a monorepo containing an Angular app that I build with @nx/angular. I also have other arbitrary projects in the monorepo (not Angular apps) for which I want to use the latest version of esbuild to bundle.

Then when attempting to install the latest version of esbuild as a devDependency in my monorepo, I get peerDependency conflict warnings.

devDependencies:
+ esbuild 0.21.5

 WARN  Issues with peer dependencies found
.
└─┬ @nx/angular 19.3.1
  ├── ✕ unmet peer esbuild@^0.19.2: found 0.21.5
  └─┬ @nrwl/angular 19.3.1
    └─┬ @nx/angular 19.3.1
      ├── ✕ unmet peer esbuild@^0.19.2: found 0.21.5
      └─┬ @nrwl/angular 19.3.1
        └─┬ @nx/angular 19.3.1
          └── ✕ unmet peer esbuild@^0.19.2: found 0.21.5

Expected Behavior

I can use whatever version of esbuild I choose when using it directly and not be forced into using the same version that is used under the hood by @nx/angular.

I believe it is semantically incorrect for @nx/angular to declare esbuild as a peer dependency - it shouldn't need to share one instance with the entire monorepo. E.g., @angular-devkit/build-angular declares esbuild as a regular dependency, not a peer.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new nx workspace with the Angular preset
2. Try to install the latest version of esbuild (e.g., pnpm add -D esbuild

Nx Report

NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template

Node   : 20.12.2
OS     : darwin-x64
pnpm   : 9.4.0

nx                 : 19.3.1
@nx/js             : 19.3.1
@nx/jest           : 19.3.1
@nx/linter         : 19.3.1
@nx/eslint         : 19.3.1
@nx/workspace      : 19.3.1
@nx/angular        : 19.3.1
@nx/devkit         : 19.3.1
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 19.3.1
@nx/playwright     : 19.3.1
@nrwl/tao          : 19.3.1
@nx/web            : 19.3.1
@nx/webpack        : 19.3.1
typescript         : 5.4.5
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Registered Plugins:
@nx/playwright/plugin
@nx/eslint/plugin

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