I love Python but I've never used Django -- I've always used Ruby on Rails since that's what I'm familiar with. Do you know of any resources I could use to get more comfortable with DRF (i.e. more complex than just the Quickstart tutorial [0])?
I learned it recently, the best tutorial on Django is right in the docs. The docs start you off with a tutorial for building a polling app that is really great for teaching the basics
The docs are amazing, probably because Django was created by journalists so they are really great at communicating things. It's not like most programming docs that leave you feeling lost and need to be supplemented with outside tutorials.
That said I'm new to programming so I supplemented the tutorial and instructions on the docs page with the one on the Django girls site.
Actually, DRF itself has a fairly comprehensive tutorial. You linked to the "quickstart" page, but if you click on the other tutorial links it goes into much greater depth.
If you want to focus on REST APIs with Django, DRF is pretty much required, and it's only a "pip3 install" away.
I flirted with switching to Rails (and did a lot of Code School courses and most of Michael Hart's Rails Tutorial), then realized I didn't have to limit myself to what comes with Django out-of-the-box.
'Tango with Django' is by far the best tutorial on Django that I've found (http://www.tangowithdjango.com/). It is well written and goes much deeper than other tutorials. It's depth is similar to the Rails Tutorial in RoR world.
[0] http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/