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I wouch for the VPN route... VPN servers are built to be exposed, are hardened/engineered to resist the harshness of the net and are somewhat safe even with default settings.
Should you publish on the wild a few web apps, you would have to harden, monitor and manage a bunch of environments and/or frameworks with a load of quirks each.
A VPN is easier to maintain and safer for your data with a lower effort.
At least of all the answers I prefer your way the most. So you set up a WireGuard access for all of the devices of your users on your router or did you install the vpn-system directly on the homeserver?
my home router is the stock one from my isp and have no vpn capabilities.
I put a port forward on the router and then configured everything on the internal node; in my case it is an opnsense vm running on proxmox.