Does my simple website need gatsby-plugin-offline and/or gatsby-plugin-manifest?

Question

Gatsby comes with gatsby-plugin-offline and gatsby-plugin-manifest as standard. I'm wondering if I need them for my projects, I build simple websites (portfolio/blog/brochure) so I don't care for them to be saveable for offline viewing, etc.

Are any crucial benefits (that I'm not understanding) to having them enabled in my project?

Answer 1

gatsby-plugin-offline is quite self-explanatory, you can remove them if you don't need that functionality.

Regarding gatsby-plugin-manifest could be more useful since adds (among other things) some PWA features like allowing the users to add your site to their home screen on most mobile browsers.

In addition, gatsby-plugin-manifest adds automated (or manual) favicon support for all devices and resolutions, cache busting, and manifest path-based localization.