Support .node-version/.nvmrc file

The actions/setup-node action supports a node-version-file input, which can point to a file that contains the version of node.js to use. It would be great if this action could also support reading the runtime version from a file (other than package.json).

We use a .node-version file to automatically get the correct Node.js version based on folder, using nvs auto. There is a PR to add that support, and if that was merged, I'd be happy for package.json to be the source of truth for the Node.js version instead, but until that point, I'd love if I could keep using .node-version without duplicating that version elsewhere in the codebase.

nvm also doesn't support reading node version from package-json (and is not likely to support it) thus without support for node-version-file pnpm/setup can't be used as a replacement for actions/setup-node without then also maintaining node version in two places.

.node-version is supported by Renovate, and it is what I always use to control node in CI.

Enforcing arbitrary heuristic versions in package.json is a maintenance overhead I would prefer not to take on. So .node-version is the "default" and otherwise our team can flexibly control their own node versions (ie if they please they can use nightlies or higher major versions for tooling features)

Edit:
I have checked, and Renovate does not support these fields, so this is not viable for me sadly. https://redirect.github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/38067

This is a much needed feature, we (https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop) are currently using both pnpm/action-setup and actions/setup-node in our CI

      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@ea17c68df8912ef543352723c149a84f56e3d413 # v6.1.0
        name: Install pnpm
        with:
          run_install: false
      - uses: actions/setup-node@820762786026740c76f36085b0efc47a31fe5020 # v7.0.0
        with:
          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
          cache: 'pnpm'

We would like to move to the pnpm/setup but don't really want to maintain the devEngines.runtime and the .nvmrc file so this would be really nice to have it supported.

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