Publish release script best practices

Author: zachleat

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -5,19 +5,20 @@ on:
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: GitHub Publish
     permissions:
       contents: read
       id-token: write
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # 4.1.7
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@1e60f620b9541d16bece96c5465dc8ee9832be0b # 4.0.3
         with:
-          node-version: "20"
+          node-version: "22"
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
-      - run: npm install
+      - run: npm install -g npm@latest
+      - run: npm ci
       - run: npm test
       - if: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name != '' && env.NPM_PUBLISH_TAG != '' }}
         run: npm publish --provenance --access=public --tag=${{ env.NPM_PUBLISH_TAG }}
         env:
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
           NPM_PUBLISH_TAG: ${{ contains(github.event.release.tag_name, '-alpha.') && 'alpha' || contains(github.event.release.tag_name, '-beta.') && 'beta' || 'latest' }}