Discussion on: Your SSR is slow & your devtools are lying to you

and instead converted markdown to html during the build phase to avoid the performance penalty of runtime parsing

With Astro you should be able to minimize (or delay) the component JS sent to the client to only what's necessary for interactivity (though the migration would be quite a bit more effort).

For the time being Astro considers itself in early beta (0.25.0) focusing on SSG, expanding later to SSR (one experience report).