diff --git a/packages/astro/src/core/render/dev/vite.ts b/packages/astro/src/core/render/dev/vite.ts
index 3412f2398..332607ff8 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/core/render/dev/vite.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/core/render/dev/vite.ts
@@ -3,12 +3,6 @@ import vite from 'vite';
 import { unwrapId } from '../../util.js';
 import { STYLE_EXTENSIONS } from '../util.js';
 
-/**
- * List of file extensions signalling we can (and should) SSR ahead-of-time
- * See usage below
- */
-const fileExtensionsToSSR = new Set(['.astro', '.md']);
-
 const STRIP_QUERY_PARAMS_REGEX = /\?.*$/;
 
 /** recursively crawl the module graph to get all style files imported by parent id */
@@ -56,12 +50,6 @@ export async function* crawlGraph(
 					if (entryIsStyle && !STYLE_EXTENSIONS.has(npath.extname(importedModulePathname))) {
 						continue;
 					}
-					if (fileExtensionsToSSR.has(npath.extname(importedModulePathname))) {
-						const mod = viteServer.moduleGraph.getModuleById(importedModule.id);
-						if (!mod?.ssrModule) {
-							await viteServer.ssrLoadModule(importedModule.id);
-						}
-					}
 				}
 				importedModules.add(importedModule);
 			}