feat(demo): add a navigation ping-pong to the Routes lab

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Adds a Navigation ping-pong button to the Routes lab (/examples/routes). Its code navigates between Details and Summary six times in a row, starting from whichever of the two the page is not on. The Guard loop link already covered redirect loops, so this is the case for code-driven navigation loops.

Fixes #102

Checks

• Ran the devtools' loop detection (watchRouter, instrument, captureCallers, detectLoops) on a real Router with the same function: it reports a navigation loop, summary → details → summary, 3 bounces
• Two new demo tests for the hop order; one fails with the starting-page logic removed
• nx test angular-devtools, pnpm typecheck, pnpm format:check and the docs build pass

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a “Navigation ping-pong” button to the Routes example. It navigates between the Details and Summary views six times, demonstrating how a navigation loop appears.
• Documentation
  • Updated the Routes and router inspector guides with the Navigation ping-pong example and clarified that Guard loop demonstrates a redirect loop.
• Style
  • Buttons in the navigation examples now have link-style appearance, hover states, visible focus outlines, and pointer cursors.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Routes lab adds a button that navigates between Details and Summary for a bounded number of hops. The helper defaults to six hops. Tests check navigation sequences from both routes, and documentation describes the scenario.

Changes

Navigation ping-pong

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded navigation helper and tests src/app/examples/ping-pong.ts, src/app/examples/route-guards.spec.ts	The helper alternates between Details and Summary and awaits each navigation. Tests check navigation sequences starting from each route.
Routes lab integration and documentation src/app/examples/routes-example.ts, apps/docs/src/content/contributing/demo-apps.md, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/router.md	The Routes example adds a button that runs the helper and applies navigation styling to buttons. The lab table and router guide describe the scenario.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RoutesExample
  participant pingPong
  participant Router
  RoutesExample->>pingPong: Start ping-pong with Router
  loop Up to the configured number of hops
    pingPong->>Router: Navigate to the opposite route
    Router-->>pingPong: Complete navigation
  end

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Suggested labels: enhancement

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b625f

Rapid clicks can disrupt the demo’s six-hop sequence. This is a bounded, demo-only issue; disabling the button during a run would make the demonstration reliable.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	❓ Inconclusive	The PR implements the optional Navigation ping-pong with bounded, alternating router.navigate calls and adds hop-order tests. It updates both requested documentation files. The existing Guard loop i…	Provide reviewable evidence for the relevant entries in src/app/app.routes.server.ts and the lab route definitions. The evidence must show that the routes covered by issue #102 use RenderMode.Client.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding a navigation ping-pong scenario to the Routes lab.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed files support issue #102. The button and pingPong helper implement the optional navigation scenario. The tests verify bounded hop order. The documentation and style changes support the R…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 …

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Explanation

The PR implements the optional Navigation ping-pong with bounded, alternating router.navigate calls and adds hop-order tests. It updates both requested documentation files. The existing Guard loop is unchanged, so this PR does not need to reimplement it. The available evidence does not establish whether the lab routes use RenderMode.Client in src/app/app.routes.server.ts, which is a coding requirement in issue #102.

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Review comments at @src/app/examples/routes-example.ts:
- Around line 84-86: Update the pingPong action to track in-flight work with a
busy signal, return early on repeated calls, and reset the signal in a finally
block after awaiting pingPong(this.router). Import signal from @angular/core and
bind the corresponding template button’s disabled state to busy().

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• apps/docs/src/content/contributing/demo-apps.md
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• src/app/examples/ping-pong.ts
• src/app/examples/route-guards.spec.ts
• src/app/examples/routes-example.ts

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