Do I need to install `fxp/composer-asset-plugin` if I'm not doing front-end development

yiisoft/yii2 requires bower-asset/jquery *@stable -> no matching package found.

"require": {
    ...
    "bower-asset/jquery": "2.2.*@stable | 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stable | 1.12.*@stable",
    ...
}