Migrate to ESM and upgrade dependencies (#1574)

* Migrate to ESM

* updated package.json version

* Update README for v6 and clean up dev dependencies

* Remove unused ts-node

* fix audit issue

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Co-authored-by: gowridurgad <gowridurgad@gmail.com>

jest.config.ts

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+export default {
+  clearMocks: true,
+  moduleFileExtensions: ['js', 'ts'],
+  roots: ['<rootDir>'],
+  testEnvironment: 'node',
+  testMatch: ['**/*.test.ts'],
+  transform: {
+    '^.+\\.ts$': [
+      'ts-jest',
+      {
+        useESM: true,
+        diagnostics: {
+          ignoreCodes: [151002]
+        }
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  extensionsToTreatAsEsm: ['.ts'],
+  transformIgnorePatterns: ['node_modules/(?!(@actions)/)'],
+  moduleNameMapper: {
+    '^(\\.{1,2}/.*)\\.js$': '$1'
+  },
+  verbose: true
+}