Why?
Systour was born as a one-month self challenge to learn PHP due to a job opportunity. However, the idea behind it was to challenge the prejudice I had against dynamic languages (or weakly typed) and web development.
Hands on, I started reading "Learn PHP, MySQL and Javascript" from Robin Nixon to understand syntax differences between another known languages (C# and Dart). I also watched a few YouTube courses (PildorasInformáticas, CodersFree) to create a CRUD app with mysqli and MariaDB.

Step up
To avoid dealing with routing, PDO, and prepared statements, I migrated to Laravel and used Eloquent ORM for queries. Initially, I used Azure SQL, but due to incompatibilities with ON CASCADE/ON DELETE queries and the lack of Azure support, I switched to Postgres
After configuring the server settings, my web application was up and running. Later, I worked on Blade templates, fixed non-ORM queries, redesigned the application, went back to learn routing with PHP, and performed refactoring.

Conclusion
I still have a dislike for web development and dynamic typing, but at least I know how to set aside my personal preferences and do what is necessary.