Set up automatic NPM releases

[tillsanders]

I've been releasing cookieconsent as vanilla-cookieconsent to the NPM registry for a while and I am still happy to help in any way. However, sometimes I'm a few days behind. Seeing the rising popularity of the project, this unnecessary delay should be eliminated. I would like to offer assistance in setting up an automated release workflow.

As you can see, I've added a workflow with two jobs: one to publish releases under the default latest tag and another to publish releases marked as a pre-release under the next tag. If this PR is accepted, every time you hit the 'Publish release' button on GitHub, the workflow will be triggered and publish the package to NPM automatically.

To set things up with NPM, we need to do a few things once:

• I will invite you as a maintainer of the NPM Package (I need your NPM username) or hand it over completely
• You need to generate an access token for NPM and save it in the secrets of this repository under the name NPM_TOKEN
• Do a quick dry run:
  • Publish a new release for this purpose – no need to change the codebase, just a new release
  • Check if the workflow is triggered and running successfully
  • Remove the release and tag
  • Remove dry-run: true (twice!) from .github/workflows/main.yml

Alternatively, you could also add me as a contributor to the repository, if you don't have an NPM account and don't want to set one up.

On a side note: I believe the package-lock.json should be tracked as well, so I included it in this PR.

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[orestbida]

Awesome!

I think you should stay as a maintainer, since it was you who created the package in the first place, and also kept it up to date. You should be able to find me under the username orestbida.

I also agree on tracking the package-lock.json file!

[tillsanders]

Great! I just sent out the invitation so you can complete the setup and accelerate publishing amazing new features ;)