Initial project setup - add documents and build workflow

[ndoschek]

• chore: enhance project documentation
  • Added issue templates
  • Added workspace settings and recommended extensions
  • Updated README
  • Added security policy, code of conduct, license
• chore: update typescript version and tsconfigs
  • Simplify devDependencies
  • Move all eslint related devDependencies to main package.json
  • Update typescript and rimraf versions
  • Update lerna version
  • Part of GH-2
• chore: add project metadata to package.json
  • Update repository property
  • Add contributors, homepage, bugs properties
• chore: add CI build workflow
• chore: remove nested test level
  • this caused the test to fail with node 20
• chore: add publish workflow
  • Add first draft of publish workflow
  • Update lerna config to point to public npm registry
  • Temporarily add manual workflow trigger