"Here's a really quick tip. You can think of Tailwind utilities as components - because you can literally make a card "component" out of Tailwind utilities. @utility card { border: 1px solid black; padding: 1rlh; } This blurs the line between "Components" and "Utilities" so we need to better define those terms. The Great Divide - and The Great Unification"
"So, let's take a step back and consider the actual meaning behind these words. Component means: A thing that's a part of a larger whole. Utility means: It's useful. So... Utilities are Components because they're still part of a larger whole. Components are Utilities because they're useful. The division between Components and Utilities is really more of a marketing effort designed to sell those utility frameworks - nothing more than that. It. Really. Doesn't. Matter."
Tailwind utilities can be used as components, allowing creation of UI constructs like a card purely from utility classes. The distinction between 'Components' and 'Utilities' is blurred because components are parts of a whole and utilities are simply useful, creating overlap. The common industry definitions of components versus utilities are misleading and function more as marketing labels for utility frameworks. A practical difference often sought is the ability to overwrite component styles using utilities. Tailwind supports writing component styles in a components layer and then overwriting them with utilities, but writing many component files with @layer components is tedious and has drawbacks.
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