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Still relies on JavaScript server side rendering - which will be the biggest performance bottleneck, by far, for both this and React.

If you really want a framework that is faster, check out Tungsten (https://github.com/wayfair/tungstenjs), which is as fast as this client side, and can render in vanilla Mustache using Go/C++.

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I can't speak to this framework, but you do not need to use server-side rendering for React applications. Instead, you can essentially serve a blank page on every request, then have the React application bootstrap itself when the page loads. Alternatively, one could precompile the HTML, and serve it as static content with nginx, apache, etc.

Correct, not rendering on the server removes the bottleneck.

It's funny Meteor actually has this problem upside down and are trying to add a way to have server side rendering.

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