[i_like_robots]

Perhaps look for web development books published around 2010-2012, before the large JS frameworks gained a major foothold. These will be missing some of the very valuable and useful developments in CSS and JavaScript (e.g. grid layout and promises) but for the other topics much of their content will still be relevant.

There's also the Indie Web wiki which has lots of getting started guides for hosting your own website: https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

[shafyy]

I don't think this is a good idea. JS made some extremely useful improvements starting with ES6 (so, 2015).

[i_like_robots]

I mostly agree - that was the intention of the caveat - although I don't think there would be too much harm done if somebody started with ES5 then layered ES20xx features or new browser APIs on top as needed.