You said that you are a recent college graduate. I strongly urge you to contact the career services office at your university and ask for their help. Even though you are no longer a student, they may still be able to offer things like resume review, interview practice, alumni resume networks, and putting you in touch with local recruiters. If your school is holding career fairs and recruiting events in person, find out when they are and attend. If those are all virtual, ask the career services office if they will give you links to them. Companies that are looking to hire new college graduates tend to fill those positions in calendar cycles. Right now, many of them are probably beginning to recruit and interview for jobs that start around graduation.
When it comes to the “Catch-22” of needing experience to get a job, I think it’s important to remember that now all experience needs to be professional experience. The closer your experience resembles professional experience, the more of an advantage it gives you. A bunch of small projects that are what someone might do in a course or following a tutorial aren’t nothing - especially if they are well executed, but I suggest getting more heavily invested in a larger scale project that demonstrate the skills you can bring to a software project. You can build something yourself, investing a lot of time in it and continuing to work on it for several months. This gives you experience working with a project that grows over time and may change scope. It includes a lot of interconnected pieces that you have to keep working well as you continue to expand. It gives you opportunities to run into technical problems and find ways to solve them. It includes maintaining packages as they are updated, deprecated, or found to be vulnerable. Alternatively, you could work on getting involved with an active open source project. This will show your ability to jump into an existing code base and learn the ropes. It will involve working with a team of fellow developers. It will give you experience handling code reviews, project requirements, and working on a project that has to consider the impact on real consumers. It doesn’t matter what your project is - a tech blog or a hamster dating service - and it doesn’t matter very much what language/framework you use. Show that you have been making good software.