MVC4 Internet Application template bundle enabled by default?

Question

I am using Mvc 4 project from Internet Application template. Why bundle feature does not enabled by default or am I missing something?

There is no such methods like this in Mvc4 as mentioned by other post:

BundleTable.Bundles.RegisterTemplateBundles();
BundleTable.Bundles.EnableDefaultBundles();

Update: This how to enable bundle in debug mode

BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;

after registering bundles.

Answer 1

Bundles are registered and enabled by default. When you run in Release mode (debug="false") in your web.config the @Script.Render helper will concatenate and minify the resources into a single file. If you run in Debug mode then each script will be rendered separately.

Answer 2

I run into a similiar issue and my solution is this:

public class bundleConfig
{
    public static void RegisterBundles(BundleCollection bundles)
    {
        // bundle as usual


#if(!DEBUG)
        BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;
#endif
    }
}

This way, when I launch it in Release mode, it does minification and bundling but if I launch it in Debug mode, it doesn't.