[JS] Remove unnecessary production dependencies
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### Describe the enhancement requested
The Apache Arrow JS bundle includes a few unnecessary packages that increase the dependency graph. The culprits are:
- command-line-usage: used by integration.ts, json-to-arrow.ts, and arrowtocsv.ts. I _think_ these can move to dev dependencies since it looks like the intent of the scripts is integration testing and benchmarking.
- @swc/helpers: Introduced in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/38500. `@swc/helpers` is never imported. I think it's used for https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/9b931af14e5a710cba0aaa6b899e2ca696bfd785/js/tsconfig.json#L22. If ts-node is only for development, this can move to devDependencies.
- @types/node: Should move to devDependencies. I don't think there's any benefit to having it listed as a production dependency.
- @types/command-line-args: move to devDependencies
- @types/command-line-usage: move to devDepdencies
- json-bignum: used by integration.ts, json-to-arrow.ts, and arrowtocsv.ts. Can move to dev dependencies.
Here's the graph of the current dependencies.

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