Why does a new MVC4 project come with a WebApi route mapped by default?

[tyrem]

A default MVC4 application will come with a \[code\]RouteConfig\[/code\] class that looks something like this:\[code\]public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) { routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); routes.MapHttpRoute( name: "DefaultApi", routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}", defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional } ); routes.MapRoute( name: "Default", url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } );}\[/code\]My question is, why the \[code\]MapHttpRoute\[/code\]? This is setting up routing for the new WebApi functionality, but I didn't choose a WebApi project, just a normal MVC4 project. Nothing in a normal MVC4 project seems to require WebApi.