I've been using vite for building a new web app and have enjoyed the experience so far.

One thing I'd love to be able to do is to do the classic thing of rendering things mostly as html templates on server side, but serving up JS for particular page components. I also don't want to use node for SSR if at all possible, but seems to be the only route available.

That way I can easily support non-js users of the app (bing struggles to index my site at all). It used to be a lot easier to do this, but I guess it's out of vogue now!