How I compile React-shaped TSX without React or hydration

I started building Kudzu while making static websites with AI. AI coding tools have become very good at producing React-shaped TSX, and I have become used to reviewing code in that form. Function components, props, JSX, and event handlers are often easier for me to understand and verify than scattered DOM queries and imperative JavaScript mutations. But I was still building static pages. I wanted to keep TSX as the authoring and code-review format without automatically shipping React, a virtual DOM, hydration, or a browser-side component tree. Kudzu grew from that idea: Write familiar TSX, execute components during the build, and ship ordinary HTML with only the JavaScript each route actually needs. Kudzu is an experimental, HTML-first TSX framework. Website: kudzujs.cloud GitHub: github.com/kudzujs/kudzu The problem I wanted to solve Consider a blog, documentation site, newsletter, or product landing page. Most of the page is already known during the build: headings; navigation; articles; images; metadata; product descriptions; documentation content. TSX is a convenient way to author and review that structure. function PostCard ({ title , description , href }: { title : string description : string href : string }) { return ( < article > < h2 >< a href = { href } > { title } </ a ></ h2 > < p > { description } </ p > </ article > ) } The component model is useful for authoring, but that does not necessarily mean the browser needs a component runtime. For a static page, I wanted the output to remain ordinary HTML. <article> <h2><a href= "/posts/hello" > Hello </a></h2> <p> My first article. </p> </article> I also wanted interactive pages to receive only the JavaScript required for their actual behavior. Kudzu's model Kudzu treats components as build-time authoring units. React-shaped TSX ↓ Kudzu compiler ↓ Static HTML + CSS + capability-specific ESM Function components execute during the build. The browser does not receive: the component functions; React; a virtual D