Is cache condition necessary to stop HTML being inserted into database cache?

Question

We currently use cache tags with a condition referencing the cache config setting:

{% cache for 1 hour if craft.config.cache %}

Is the condition necessary to stop HTML being inserted into the database cache?

Answer 1

No, there is a better way to do this. Set the enableTemplateCaching config value to false.

'enableTemplateCaching' => false,

With that setting disabled, all caching will be skipped.

// Won't be cached
{% cache for 1 hour %}