refactor: add automatic releases

Add an automatic release workflow and conventional commits. The release workflow determines the
version from the type of commits and then links each commit to a changelog entry in the appropriate
section, according to the type of the latter.

.gitignore

@@ -9,4 +9,10 @@ pipelines/*
 .DS_Store
 
 .venv
-venv/
+venv/
+
+# Dependency directories
+node_modules/
+
+# Optional npm cache directory
+.npm