Can't install Yii2 via Composer - yii2

Question

I'm trying to install Yii2 via Composer (OS X El Capitan 10.11.3).
I did this
php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
and then
php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic 2.0.9
and I've got errors like
yiisoft/yii2 2.0.9 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.2.#stable | 2.1.#stable | 1.11.#stable | 1.12.#stable -> no matching package found.
I don't know why it happens. I tried to reinstall (composer and asset-plugin), diff version as well and again the same problem with yiisoft/yii2 2.0.9 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.2.#stable

Answer 1

Try to install composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin: *" first. Also, make sure you have these added in your composer.json file:
"extra": {
"asset-installer-paths": {
"npm-asset-library": "vendor/npm",
"bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower"
}
}
Another solution is to attempt to self-update:
composer self-update --rollback
If these solutions did not work, you can try to use this sequence of commands:
rm -rf ~/.composer/vendor
rm ~/.composer/composer.lock
cd ~/.composer
composer clear-cache
composer self-update
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.3"
composer install
Source 1 | Source 2 | Source 3 | Source 4

Answer 2

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced yii-application
The first command installs the composer asset plugin which allows managing bower and npm package dependencies through Composer. You only need to run this command once for all.
The second command installs the latest stable version of Yii in a directory named basic. You can choose a different directory name if you want.