migration of release.yaml github action

[raffaele-oplabs]

Description

This pull request includes significant updates to the CI/CD pipeline configuration, particularly focusing on CircleCI workflows and npm publishing processes. The changes streamline the setup and publishing steps, ensuring better management of dependencies and environment variables.

CircleCI Configuration Updates:

• Added a new utils orb for CircleCI utilities to the configuration (.circleci/config.yml).
• Introduced a prepare-snapshot command to handle snapshot versioning and environment setup (.circleci/config.yml).
• Replaced the lint, test, and typecheck jobs with a consolidated check job, and added a publish-to-npm job for publishing versions (.circleci/config.yml).

GitHub Actions Cleanup:

• Removed the custom setup action in .github/actions/setup/action.yml as it is now handled within the CircleCI configuration.
• Deleted the release-snapshot.yml workflow, consolidating its functionality into the CircleCI workflows (.github/workflows/release-snapshot.yml).
• Removed the release.yml workflow, with its tasks now managed in the CircleCI configuration (.github/workflows/release.yml).

Package Management:

• Simplified the release:publish script in package.json by removing redundant installation steps (package.json).

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