How to go on building projects?

Hello I have been getting some pace in full stack development, I am currently practicing my skills in Laravel + React + MariaDB stack. I already built an auth system + blog project all by scratch by myself with my research. I learned a lot but it took a lot of time.

Is it better to find tutorials and code along, then try to do it yourself by trying to understand everything that you write, or just start from scratch again.

What is your opinion, that would not make me stuck in tutorial hell, right? Because I plan to make extensive research for each new thing to me, and after the tutorial, I will try to implement them myself.

Thanks