You are correct. This is such an obvious, simple thing that anyone with a small bit of experience optimizing a static website for render completion would unders

You are correct. This is such an obvious, simple thing that anyone with a small bit of experience optimizing a static website for render completion would understand. React is designed to allow a server-side render and an async load of the js library to allow it to be used in this kind of scenario without impacting perceived load time or "time to interaction".