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Hey, I was in a similar situation at that inflection point but veered into PHP application development and couldn’t quite get away from the front end. Let me tell you: CSS Flexbox and Grid are amazing. AlpineJS is “just the good parts” of jQuery. You can go back now. Check out 11ty.
You should check out the app directory at Selfh.st. There are a bunch of selfhosted solutions for what you’re looking for, be they all in one or micro services.