GitHub Actions release workflow addition

[paulmarsicloud]

Description

• Setting up a release.yml GitHub Workflow so that we can publish to NPM in an automated fashion.
• Added changesets as the tool to control semantic-release versioning for NPM publishing.
• Added the following in order to add Provenance verification badge on this NPM page

  "publishConfig": {
    "provenance": true
  }

• Added a NPM_TOKEN to the settings of this repo.
• Amended the CONTRIBUTING.md guide

Checklist:

• All tests are passing
• Type definitions, if updated, pass both test-ts-defs and test-ts-usage
• Benchmark performance has not significantly decreased
• Bundle size has not been significantly impacted
• The bundle size badge has been updated to reflect the new size

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Merging #125 (62e63ac) into master (b34988f) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

❗ Current head 62e63ac differs from pull request most recent head 6748ac4. Consider uploading reports for the commit 6748ac4 to get more accurate results

@@           Coverage Diff           @@
##           master     #125   +/-   ##
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  Coverage   98.21%   98.21%           
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  Files           1        1           
  Lines          56       56           
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  Hits           55       55           
  Misses          1        1           

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
index.js	98.21% <100.00%> (ø)

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