diff --git a/examples/ssr/package.json b/examples/ssr/package.json
index de015f3f13..9e508eca60 100644
--- a/examples/ssr/package.json
+++ b/examples/ssr/package.json
@@ -19,5 +19,8 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "svelte": "^3.47.0"
+  },
+  "volta": {
+    "node": "16.15.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/examples/ssr/server/server.mjs b/examples/ssr/server/server.mjs
index d7a0a7a40f..bc2d2ff688 100644
--- a/examples/ssr/server/server.mjs
+++ b/examples/ssr/server/server.mjs
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ const server = createServer((req, res) => {
 	});
 });
 
-server.listen(8085);
-console.log('Serving at http://localhost:8085');
+server.listen(3000);
+console.log('Serving at http://localhost:3000');
 
 // Silence weird <time> warning
 console.error = () => {};
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/runtime/server/index.ts b/packages/astro/src/runtime/server/index.ts
index d3700888c4..7e53aef58c 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/runtime/server/index.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/runtime/server/index.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import type {
 import { escapeHTML, HTMLString, markHTMLString } from './escape.js';
 import { extractDirectives, generateHydrateScript, serializeProps } from './hydration.js';
 import { serializeListValue } from './util.js';
+import { renderToReadableStream } from './stream.js';
 
 export { markHTMLString, markHTMLString as unescapeHTML } from './escape.js';
 export type { Metadata } from './metadata';
@@ -59,6 +60,29 @@ async function _render(child: any): Promise<any> {
 	}
 }
 
+export async function* _renderStream(child: any): any {
+	child = await child;
+	if (child instanceof HTMLString) {
+		yield child;
+	} else if (typeof child === 'string') {
+		yield markHTMLString(escapeHTML(child));
+	} else if (Array.isArray(child)) {
+		yield markHTMLString((await Promise.all(child.map((value) => _render(value)))).join(''));
+	} else if (typeof child === 'function') {
+		yield* _renderStream(child());
+	} else if (!child && child !== 0) {
+		yield '';
+		// do nothing, safe to ignore falsey values.
+	} else if (
+		child instanceof AstroComponent ||
+		Object.prototype.toString.call(child) === '[object AstroComponent]'
+	) {
+		yield* child;
+	} else {
+		yield child;
+	}
+}
+
 // The return value when rendering a component.
 // This is the result of calling render(), should this be named to RenderResult or...?
 export class AstroComponent {
@@ -74,7 +98,7 @@ export class AstroComponent {
 		return 'AstroComponent';
 	}
 
-	*[Symbol.iterator]() {
+	*[Symbol.asyncIterator]() {
 		const { htmlParts, expressions } = this;
 
 		for (let i = 0; i < htmlParts.length; i++) {
@@ -82,7 +106,7 @@ export class AstroComponent {
 			const expression = expressions[i];
 
 			yield markHTMLString(html);
-			yield _render(expression);
+			yield* _renderStream(expression)();
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -507,11 +531,14 @@ export async function renderPage(
 		const response = await componentFactory(result, props, children);
 
 		if (isAstroComponent(response)) {
-			let template = await renderAstroComponent(response);
-			const html = await replaceHeadInjection(result, template);
+			const stream = renderToReadableStream(response, {})
+			const res = new Response(stream, { 
+				status: 200,
+				headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text/html;charset=UTF-8' },
+			});
 			return {
-				type: 'html',
-				html,
+				type: 'response',
+				response: res,
 			};
 		} else {
 			return {
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/runtime/server/stream.ts b/packages/astro/src/runtime/server/stream.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6c9e63459b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/astro/src/runtime/server/stream.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import { _renderStream } from './index.js';
+import { Readable } from 'node:stream';
+import { HTMLString } from './escape.js';
+
+export const StreamingIterator = Symbol.for('astro:streaming-iterator');
+
+const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, ms));
+
+interface RenderToReadableStreamOptions {
+  identifierPrefix?: string,
+  namespaceURI?: string,
+  progressiveChunkSize?: number,
+  signal?: AbortSignal,
+  onReadyToStream?: () => void,
+  onCompleteAll?: () => void,
+  onError?: (error: any) => void,
+};
+
+export function renderToReadableStream(
+  Component: any,
+  options?: RenderToReadableStreamOptions,
+): ReadableStream {
+	let aborted = false;
+  if (options && options.signal) {
+    const signal = options.signal;
+    const listener = () => {
+      aborted = true;
+      signal.removeEventListener('abort', listener);
+    };
+    signal.addEventListener('abort', listener);
+  }
+
+	const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+	async function push(controller: ReadableStreamController<Uint8Array>) {
+		for await (const value of Component) {
+			if (aborted) break;
+			if (typeof value === 'object' && value.done) {
+				controller.close();
+				break;
+			}
+			if (value || value === 0) {
+				controller.enqueue(encoder.encode(value.toString()));
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+  const stream = new ReadableStream({
+    async pull(controller) {
+			await push(controller);
+			controller.close();
+    },
+    cancel(reason) {
+			aborted = true;
+		},
+  });
+
+  return stream;
+}
+
+export function renderToNodeStream(
+  Component: any,
+  options?: RenderToReadableStreamOptions,
+): Readable {
+	let aborted = false;
+  if (options && options.signal) {
+    const signal = options.signal;
+    const listener = () => {
+      aborted = true;
+      signal.removeEventListener('abort', listener);
+    };
+    signal.addEventListener('abort', listener);
+  }
+
+	const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+	async function* body() {
+		for await (const value of Component) {
+			if (aborted) return;
+			if (value || value === 0) {
+				// for await (const subvalue of _render(value)) {
+				// 	console.log(subvalue);
+				// 	yield encoder.encode(subvalue.toString());
+				// }
+				
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+  const stream = Readable.from(body());
+
+  return stream;
+}
diff --git a/packages/webapi/run/build.js b/packages/webapi/run/build.js
index 3bde958f0f..400cebf3b9 100644
--- a/packages/webapi/run/build.js
+++ b/packages/webapi/run/build.js
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ const plugins = [
 		MediaQueryList: ['./MediaQueryList', 'MediaQueryList'],
 		Node: ['./Node', 'Node'],
 		ReadableStream: [
-			'web-streams-polyfill/dist/ponyfill.es6.mjs',
+			'web-streams-polyfill/dist/ponyfill.es2018.mjs',
 			'ReadableStream',
 		],
 		ShadowRoot: ['./Node', 'ShadowRoot'],
diff --git a/packages/webapi/src/lib/fetch.ts b/packages/webapi/src/lib/fetch.ts
index c62c46e30e..944115f564 100644
--- a/packages/webapi/src/lib/fetch.ts
+++ b/packages/webapi/src/lib/fetch.ts
@@ -2,12 +2,33 @@ import {
 	default as nodeFetch,
 	Headers,
 	Request,
-	Response,
+	Response as NodeResponse,
 } from 'node-fetch/src/index.js'
+import { ReadableStream } from '../ponyfill.js'
 import Stream from 'node:stream'
 import * as _ from './utils'
 
-export { Headers, Request, Response }
+export { Headers, Request }
+
+export class Response extends NodeResponse {
+	constructor(_body: any, init: any) {
+		let body;
+		if (_body instanceof ReadableStream) {
+			async function* getStream() {
+				const reader = _body.getReader();
+				while (true) {
+					const { value, done } = await reader.read();
+					if (done) return;
+					yield value;
+				}
+			}
+			body = Stream.Readable.from(getStream());
+		} else {
+			body = _body;
+		}
+		super(body, init);
+	}
+};
 
 export const fetch = {
 	fetch(