How to grab files from Bower with Gulp?

Question

gulp.js

How to automatically or at least semi-automatically pick up files from bower_components and copy them to the assets folder , subsequently performing certain operations with certain files?
Those. for example, I need to pick up jQuery from bower, but not compress it with the rest of the files, but for example Foundation Components I would like to build and minify.
Interested in the option without permanent editing gulpfile.js

Answer 1

main-bower-files
I use something like this

gulp.task('bowerJS', function () {
  return del('src/js/vendor').then(function (paths) {
    return gulp.src(mainBowerFiles('**/*.js'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('src/js/vendor'));
  }).catch(console.dir);
});

Answer 2

Check out these packages:
main-bower-files
wiredep