Tooling Upgrades, Config Improvements

I've updated a bunch of packages to their latest versions, improved ESLint and TypeScript configurations.

Full Changelog: 1.0.0...v1.1.0

1.0.0

Stable Release

This release adds new features for fast development and instructions in the README.

Initial Release

Environment is set up, and everything builds and runs.

Next Steps:

• more detail in the README
• more developer tooling, linting rules, etc.
• allow VS Code to read the node_modules directory