running your own email is the hardest part of the list, imho. even deployments technicalities aside, your server needs ''reputation" to not get into spam. i ended up just paying for protonmail.
about frontend dev: you can now do a lot without js or with minimal vanilla js, without npm hell. get a good css framework, get a template engine for your backend of choice, and that should serve you well.
@orsinium I know, they stole email from us claiming to combat spam and somehow there is still spam
The idea is an email server which will have an list of known trusted servers of friends and family to send and receive email with, & will allow receive email from anywhere else but flag these as suspicious by default. I don't think I will send much email to any where else more than once a week.
I can use #RubyOnRails for web apps as needed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
