Add the go and nodejs modules, which own the toolchain packages and provide go-toolchain and node-toolchain (issue 1573)

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+# nodejs
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+Node.js and npm as a module (novox/hq ADR 0477 §4, issue 1573).
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+- **Owns the packages `nodejs` and `npm`.** No other module declares them (`checks/toolchains` refuses one that
+  does).
+- **Provides `node-toolchain` with the machine's reach**: dev-tools, lab and mesh-build-node require it, and the
+  requirement is met only by this module on the same machine. It is never pulled in for whatever asked, so
+  `nodejs` is assigned to a node on purpose, and a node without it refuses a module that needs it at resolution.
+- Holds no long-running resource, so it adds nothing to `health-undeclared`.
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+The node-engine never uninstalls a package, so moving the declaration here removes nothing from a node.