Missing function for validating Alpaca API Connection

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently there is no way to check if the provided credentials/configuration/connection is correct to connect to the alpaca api. It would be nice to have a function/implementation to return the http status code and/or similar.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Maybe something similar to:

const alpaca = new Alpaca({
  keyId: process.env.ALPACA_API_KEY,
  secretKey: process.env.ALPACA_API_SECRET,
})

if(alpaca.validateConnection()){
  console.log("alpaca connection is valid.")
} else {
  throw new Error("alpaca connection is invalid.")
}

// Or: 
if(alpaca.apiHttpStatusCode === '401'){

}

Describe an alternate solution.

No response

Anything else? (Additional Context)

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