Utility Classes: Their Benefits and Limitations

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What are the benefits of utility classes?

Utility classes are hugely popular because of they can offer a lightweight developer experience. For many libraries that provide utility classes, you won’t need to deal with any complex JavaScript or frameworks. You just write your HTML and apply the correct class names to these elements.

Secondly, utility class libraries can be very easy to publish and distribute. Importing a utility class library into your project can be as simple as importing from a CDN into your HTML, like so:

<head>
	<link
		rel="stylesheet"
		href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"
	/>
</head>

This downloads the stylesheet from a remote location, which applies all of the CSS rules to that particular page.

Lastly, CSS has universal support so you don’t need to worry about locking people out based on their choice of framework. As most web developers learn HTML and CSS first, the skill cei