Add comprehensive developer experience improvements to Langbase SDK

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This PR introduces comprehensive developer experience enhancements to the Langbase SDK while maintaining 100% backward compatibility. The improvements focus on making the SDK more intuitive, easier to debug, and faster to develop with.

🚀 New Developer-Friendly Features

Convenience Methods for Common Tasks

// Before: Verbose pipe execution
const response = await langbase.pipes.run({
  name: 'my-pipe',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'What is AI?' }],
  stream: false
});

// After: Quick and clean
const response = await langbase.run('my-pipe', 'What is AI?');

Added three convenience methods:

• langbase.run(pipeName, prompt) - Quick pipe execution
• langbase.stream(pipeName, prompt) - Quick streaming
• langbase.chat(pipeName, history, message) - Conversational interface with history

Fluent Message Builder Pattern

const messages = langbase.utils.createMessageBuilder('my-pipe')
  .system('You are a helpful assistant')
  .user('Hello!')
  .assistant('Hi there!')
  .user('How can you help?')
  .build();

The message builder supports method chaining, direct pipe execution, and utilities like count(), lastMessage(), clear(), and pop().

Enhanced Error Handling with Actionable Guidance

try {
  await langbase.run('non-existent-pipe', 'Hello');
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof LangbaseError) {
    console.log('Error:', error.message);
    console.log('Suggestion:', error.info?.suggestion);
    console.log('Documentation:', error.info?.docs);
    console.log('Retryable:', error.isRetryable());
  }
}

The new LangbaseError class provides:

• Specific error codes and types
• Actionable suggestions for resolution
• Links to relevant documentation
• Retryable error detection

Comprehensive Runtime Validation

Enhanced validation with detailed error messages for:

• Constructor parameters with API key format validation
• Pipe run options with field-specific guidance
• Message structure validation
• Required parameter checks

// Invalid API key format now provides helpful guidance
new Langbase({ apiKey: 'invalid-format' });
// Error: "API key format appears invalid. Langbase API keys start with 'lb_'"
// Suggestion: "Get your API key from https://langbase.com/docs/api-reference/api-keys"

Developer Utilities and Helpers

// Message creation helpers
const userMsg = langbase.utils.userMessage('Hello!');
const systemMsg = langbase.utils.systemMessage('You are helpful');

// Conversation utilities
const conversation = langbase.utils.createConversation([
  { user: 'Hi', assistant: 'Hello!' },
  { user: 'How are you?', assistant: 'Good!' }
]);

// Debug utilities
langbase.utils.debug.enable();
const summary = langbase.utils.debug.getSummary();

Enhanced TypeScript Experience

• Improved type inference for response types
• Utility types for better development experience
• Comprehensive JSDoc documentation with examples
• Better IntelliSense support

🛡️ Backward Compatibility

All changes are completely non-breaking:

• Existing code continues to work unchanged
• No modifications to existing APIs
• Additive-only enhancements
• Existing examples and patterns remain valid

📚 Documentation and Testing

• Added comprehensive developer experience guide (DX_FEATURES.md)
• Enhanced JSDoc comments throughout the codebase
• Working examples demonstrating all new features
• Validation tests ensuring error handling works correctly
• Verified existing patterns continue to work

🎯 Impact

These improvements significantly enhance the developer experience by:

• Reducing boilerplate code with convenience methods
• Improving debugging with enhanced errors and debug utilities
• Accelerating development with fluent interfaces and helpers
• Increasing reliability with comprehensive validation
• Enhancing discoverability with better documentation and examples

The SDK now provides a world-class developer experience while maintaining its existing reliability and performance characteristics.

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