yeah, I built a set of examples to address this usage pattern https://github.com/MicroWebStacks/astro-examples see 04_client-counters and 05_client-uid-counters
#How to alternative for elementbyid in ssr?
broken blaze
After that, and if it does not help, maybe you can try to reproduce your use case in a simple example that does not include anything that is not necessary to show the use case, e.g. if this is related to react and if not drop react from the example.