ci: add release-please with pre-1.0 versioning

Automate version bumps and changelog from conventional commits. bump-minor-pre-major keeps releases in the 0.x range until we manually cut 1.0 for production.

Author: mrdarrengriffin

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

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+name: release-please
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          config-file: release-please-config.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json

.release-please-manifest.json

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+{
+  ".": "0.0.1"
+}

release-please-config.json

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+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "release-type": "node",
+      "bump-minor-pre-major": true
+    }
+  }
+}