:octocat: Add workflow for publishing nightly npm packages (#5047)

* add workflow for publishing edge npm packages

* release notes

* alright mr rabbit

* never trust the wabbit

* changing tag to nightly as per maintainer feedback

* fix hotfix script version

* rename workflow

* wabbit

* exit process

* fix reference to package json

* variable scoping

* change nightly version number to yyyymmdd (#17)

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Co-authored-by: Matt Fiddaman <github@m.fiddaman.uk>

.github/actions/get-next-package-version.js

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+// This script is used in GitHub Actions to get the next version based on the current package.json version.
+// It supports three types of versioning: nightly, hotfix, and monthly.
+
+const { parseArgs } = require('node:util');
+const fs = require('node:fs');
+
+const args = process.argv;
+
+const options = {
+  'package-json': {
+    type: 'string',
+    short: 'p',
+  },
+  'type': {
+    type: 'string', // nightly, hotfix, monthly
+    short: 't',
+  },
+};
+
+const { values } = parseArgs({
+  args,
+  options,
+  allowPositionals: true,
+});
+
+if (!values["package-json"]) {
+  console.error('Please specify the path to package.json using --package-json or -p option.');
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+try {
+  const packageJsonPath = values['package-json'];
+
+  // Read and parse package.json
+  const packageJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packageJsonPath, 'utf8'));
+  const currentVersion = packageJson.version;
+
+  // Parse year and month from version (e.g. 25.5.1 -> year=2025, month=5)
+  const versionParts = currentVersion.split('.');
+  const versionYear = parseInt(versionParts[0]);
+  const versionMonth = parseInt(versionParts[1]);
+  const versionHotfix = parseInt(versionParts[2]);
+
+  // Create date and add 1 month
+  const versionDate = new Date(2000 + versionYear, versionMonth - 1, 1); // month is 0-indexed
+  const nextVersionMonthDate = new Date(versionDate.getFullYear(), versionDate.getMonth() + 1, 1);
+
+  // Format back to YY.M format
+  const nextVersionYear = nextVersionMonthDate.getFullYear().toString().slice(-2);
+  const nextVersionMonth = nextVersionMonthDate.getMonth() + 1; // Convert back to 1-indexed
+
+  // Get current date string
+  const currentDate = new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0].replaceAll('-', '');
+
+  switch (values.type) {
+    case 'nightly': {
+      const newVersion = `${nextVersionYear}.${nextVersionMonth}.0-nightly.${currentDate}`;
+      process.stdout.write(newVersion); // return the new version to stdout
+      process.exit();
+    }
+    case 'hotfix': {
+      const bugfixVersion = `${versionYear}.${versionMonth}.${versionHotfix + 1}`;
+      process.stdout.write(bugfixVersion); // return the bugfix version to stdout
+      process.exit();
+    }
+    case 'monthly': {
+      const stableVersion = `${nextVersionYear}.${nextVersionMonth}.0`;
+      process.stdout.write(stableVersion); // return the stable version to stdout
+      process.exit();
+    }
+    default:
+      console.error('Invalid type specified. Use "nightly", "hotfix", or "monthly".');
+      process.exit(1);
+  }
+} catch (error) {
+  console.error('Error:', error.message);
+  process.exit(1);
+}