Flat Dependency Hoisting in Bower 1.8.x and Zero‑Downtime Migration
Goal: Migrate a small front‑end application to a new set of Bower packages without any downtime, relying on Bower 1.8.x’s flat dependency resolution where compatible versions are hoisted to the top level of bower_components . Constraint: Bower does not create a lock file, so the exact flat tree produced by version ranges can differ between environments, and