chore: add more maintenance notices on the documentation
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 Bazel rules to build and test code that targets a JavaScript runtime, including NodeJS and browsers.
 
+> 🚨 rules_nodejs is now mostly unmaintained! 🚨
+>
+> See the Maintenance Update in the [root README](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs#maintenance-update)
+
 ## Scope of the project
 
 This repository contains three layers: