feat: export plugin metadata (#8331)

* feat: export plugin metadata

* Update Config.ts

Author: bradzacher

Diff for: src/index.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
+import type { Linter } from '@typescript-eslint/utils/ts-eslint';
+
 import configRule from './rules/config';
 
+// note - cannot migrate this to an import statement because it will make TSC copy the package.json to the dist folder
+const { name, version } = require('../package.json') as {
+  name: string;
+  version: string;
+};
+
+export const meta: Linter.PluginMeta = {
+  name,
+  version,
+};
+
 /**
  * Expose a single rule called "config", which will be accessed in the user's eslint config files
  * via "tslint/config"
  */
-export const rules = {
+export const rules: Linter.PluginRules = {
   config: configRule,
 };