Feature: Better docs and utility functions

[seangwright]

Library

• Bump library to 1.4.0
• Improve VS Code tasks configuration
• Update npm packages

Docs

• Move examples of monad methods to dedicated markdown files
  • This starts to resolve Docs: README examples #7 but ResultAsync and MaybeAsync are still missing examples
• Add readable explanations of each monad and "real-world" concrete examples to README.md
• Add examples of ESM usage of the library to README.md

Maybe

• Add Maybe utitlity factory functions: zeroAsNone, emptyStringAsNone, emptyOrWhiteSpaceStringAsNone
  • These are in a separate module so that they don't increase the size of Maybe since they might not be used
• Clarify that Maybe converts null/undefined to 'no value'

MaybeAsync

• Allow MaybeAsync.from to accept null/undefined values
  • Users won't need to guard against when integrating MaybeAsync into existing code
• Add getValueOrDefault and getValueOrThrow to MaybeAsync

Utilities

• Add noop utility method and expose it as public API
  • Can be used with match to pass a value through

Notes

I tested updating Jest to Jest 29 broke it the custom assertions/matchers used by this library. I investigated the issue for awhile but was unable to figure out the right combination of hacks. It seems like the ecosystem is full of outdated information and a simple solution still hasn't been figured out.
See: jestjs/jest#12267 and jestjs/jest#12424

For now I'm staying on the latest of Jest 28, which works fine.

[KyleMcMaster]

Changes look good! Lots to digest here but the docs and examples make it easy to see how this might be used for a consumer's domain. 👍 Left just a few suggestions on possible typos I noticed.