improve Node.js setup on GitHub Actions (#4775)

test/release/install.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+if command -v timeout &> /dev/null; then NATIVE=1; fi
+timeout() {
+    T=$1
+    shift
+    shift
+    shift
+    expect <<EOF
+set timeout $T
+spawn -noecho sh -c "$@"
+expect timeout { exit 124 } eof
+catch wait ret
+exit [lindex \$ret 3]
+EOF
+    return $?
+}
+if [ $NATIVE ]; then unset -f timeout; fi
+
+git clone --branch v1.6.0 --depth 1 https://github.com/jasongin/nvs.git ~/.nvs
+while ! timeout 60 bash -c ". ~/.nvs/nvs.sh add $NODE && nvs use $NODE"; do
+    cd ~/.nvs
+    while !(git clean -xdf); do echo "'git clean' failed - retrying..."; done
+    cd -
+done
+. ~/.nvs/nvs.sh --version
+nvs use $NODE
+node --version
+npm config set audit false
+npm config set optional false
+npm config set save false
+npm config set strict-ssl false
+npm config set update-notifier false
+npm --version
+while !(npm install); do echo "'npm install' failed - retrying..."; done