feat: add semantic release, commitlint, introduce next branch

BREAKING CHANGE: Produces ESM build.

.commitlintrc.cjs

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+module.exports = {
+  extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional']
+};

.github/workflows/commitlint.yml

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+name: Lint Commit Messages
+on: [pull_request, push]
+
+jobs:
+  commitlint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: wagoid/commitlint-github-action@v6
+        with:
+          configFile: .commitlintrc.cjs

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: Release
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - beta
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout sources 🔰
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Node.js 20 👷🏻
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 20
+
+      - name: Install dependencies ⏬
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Build artifacts 🏗️
+        run: npm run build
+
+      - name: Release 🚀
+        uses: cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v4.1.0
+        id: semantic
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_RELEASE_TOKEN }}
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

.releaserc

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+{
+  "branches": [
+    "master",
+    {
+      "name": "beta",
+      "prerelease": true
+    }
+  ],
+  "plugins": [
+    [
+      "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
+      {
+        "preset": "conventionalcommits"
+      }
+    ],
+    [
+      "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
+      {
+        "preset": "conventionalcommits",
+        "presetConfig": {
+          "header": "Changelog of GeoStyler CQL parser"
+        }
+      }
+    ],
+    "@semantic-release/changelog",
+    "@semantic-release/npm",
+    [
+      "@semantic-release/git",
+      {
+        "assets": [
+          "CHANGELOG.md", "package.json", "package-lock.json"
+        ],
+        "message": "chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} [skip ci]\n\n${nextRelease.notes}"
+      }
+    ],
+    "@semantic-release/github"
+  ]
+}