Spacer components are great. They’re very obvious when reading code why they’re there. You don’t have to think about whether margin or padding makes more sense

Spacer components are great. They’re very obvious when reading code why they’re there. You don’t have to think about whether margin or padding makes more sense, and which element it should belong on. No one is reading your perfectly crafted semantic HTML anyway. Screen readers don’t care about an empty span. And apparently they really bother the “get off my lawn” types on Hacker News. My preferred API is allowing one of 3 props: “size”, “width”, or “height” (because including both “size” and “axis” is pretty verbose)