Simplify npm publish step in workflow

[gracepark]

Part of: https://github.com/github/web-systems/issues/4309

Removed npm whoami command from publish step.

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Pull request overview

This PR aims to simplify the GitHub Actions release workflow used to publish the package to npm.

Changes:

• Removes npm whoami from the publish step.
• Modifies the npm publish step invocation (and currently also removes the auth env block for the step).

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File	Description
.github/workflows/publish.yml	Simplifies the npm publish step in the release workflow (but also drops the publish auth env configuration).

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[gracepark]

Hi @maraisr! Thanks for the review! I noticed that I'm running into this error:

Code scanning is waiting for results from CodeQL for the commits e3baae5 or 4ceb530.

I'm unable to see the settings on the repo since (I don't have permissions). Would you be able to check this for me? I think you can disable the CodeQL-block repo custom property to immediately disable CodeQL blocking this PR, but I'm not sure if that's what your team would want.

[gracepark]

@github/github-models-reviewers - Friendly bump here. Would you be able to help with ^?

[gracepark]

Closing as this is being deprecated and no new updates will be published, and confirmed it's safe to remove the npm_token.

https://github.slack.com/archives/C0764GLHNGN/p1778863554162309