[FEATURE] Enable caching of dependencies to save build minutes

[Pranav016]

Description

• In .github/workflows/build.yaml we can cache the dependencies based on changes in package-lock.json .
• This will help make our build much faster.
• Since for free tier, only 2000 build minutes/month are allotted on github actions servers, if in future the project becomes very large, we can take advantage of caching and keep the build times low.

I would like to work on this issue

• I will create hashes for the package-lock and setup lookups based on hashes to help fetch the cache if the dependencies are same as before.

Please assign me this issue if found valid 🙂

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Additional information

• Also I found that there was a lot of code duplication among .github/workflows/build.yaml file and the other workflows as well such as checking out to the repo in the VM and then installing all dependencies.
• I do know a couple ways that might help but not sure about them. I can raise new issue for this and research on it as well or we can discuss with other community members.
• A couple ways that I have for this are making a single reusable template(composite actions) or combining jobs just have separate steps but that would compromise parallelism but then we don't have to setup a new environment again.
• Let me know if this sounds valid, I'll raise a new issue for it then and research on it a bit more.

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[eddiejaoude]

Interesting idea @Pranav016 , we have not got anywhere near the limit of our usage allowance and I don't think the wait time is that long.

Thank you for raising the PR, I left a comment in there

Sorry for taking so long to respond