Migrate to ESM and upgrade dependencies (#763)

* Migrate to ESM and upgrade dependencies

* Remove unused tsconfig.eslint.json

* bump version to 7.0.0 in package.json and package-lock.json

* Add ESM migration note to README for V7

* Remove unnecessary devDependencies: ts-node, @types/jest

* npm audit fix

* Update README with ESM migration details

Clarified migration details to ESM for action compatibility.

* Downgrade @types/node to ^24, clean up tsconfig and README.

tsconfig.json

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
   "compilerOptions": {
     /* Basic Options */
     // "incremental": true,                   /* Enable incremental compilation */
-    "target": "es6",                          /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', 'ES2018', 'ES2019' or 'ESNEXT'. */
-    "module": "commonjs",                     /* Specify module code generation: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es2015', or 'ESNext'. */
+    "target": "ES2022",                          /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', 'ES2018', 'ES2019' or 'ESNEXT'. */
+    "module": "NodeNext",                     /* Specify module code generation. */
     // "allowJs": true,                       /* Allow javascript files to be compiled. */
     // "checkJs": true,                       /* Report errors in .js files. */
     // "jsx": "preserve",                     /* Specify JSX code generation: 'preserve', 'react-native', or 'react'. */
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     // "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,    /* Report errors for fallthrough cases in switch statement. */
 
     /* Module Resolution Options */
-    // "moduleResolution": "node",            /* Specify module resolution strategy: 'node' (Node.js) or 'classic' (TypeScript pre-1.6). */
+    // "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",            /* Specify module resolution strategy: 'node' (Node.js) or 'classic' (TypeScript pre-1.6). */
     // "baseUrl": "./",                       /* Base directory to resolve non-absolute module names. */
     // "paths": {},                           /* A series of entries which re-map imports to lookup locations relative to the 'baseUrl'. */
     // "rootDirs": [],                        /* List of root folders whose combined content represents the structure of the project at runtime. */
@@ -61,5 +61,5 @@
     // "experimentalDecorators": true,        /* Enables experimental support for ES7 decorators. */
     // "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,         /* Enables experimental support for emitting type metadata for decorators. */
   },
-  "exclude": ["node_modules", "**/*.test.ts"]
+  "exclude": ["node_modules", "**/*.test.ts", "jest.config.ts"]
 }