Use hooks, support React 18, drop React < 16

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Similar to u-wave/react-youtube#117.

This will be version 1.0 of the library.

It uses hooks internally instead of a class. The published code targets modern browsers but you can still transpile it if you need to.

There should be no API changes.

[joshuarcher]

When do we expect to merge this? And why is it necessary to drop React <= 16

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No real timeline on merging this, as it's not really that important for end users anyways. The feature set is the same as the class component version from 0.x.

I want to align this release with my other embed modules (especially @u-wave/react-youtube) and the hooks approach has some caveats wrt unmounting and the timing of destroying the player. As it's going to be 1.0, i want to be sure that there are no bugs around that :)

[bnolan001]

Any updates on when this or the other PRs will be merged?

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Not currently. are you looking for a particular improvement from this PR?

[bnolan001]

Having a version number that is 1.0 makes the library an easier sell for usage in a project.

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I'll aim to finish, test, and release this by the time React 19 comes out.