> if you use simple unchanged files for other dynamic stuff like JSON etc, you can just generate those on build and serve those files in the host directly
Other web frameworks support this too, if you look for "static export" options. Next.js, for example, supports this via the getInitialProps function.
What I like especially about Astro, that you perform this data loading during build time from any component/file on your page. With Next.js, this is only possible via the top level Page component.
That is legacy, the current way with page router model is to use getStaticProps or getServerSideProps.
And if using app router model, that is part of React server components.