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I love DRF. Compared to building APIs using Flask or Node, it's an order of magnitude faster.

I really wish there was a JS framework with the elegant API and built-in functionality of Django+DRF.

The way models, serializers, and viewsets are defined and work together is, AFAIK, non-existent in the JS world.

Even Ember, which IMO is the best candidate for becoming a full-stack framework, does not have all the bells and whistles that come with Django's ORM.

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])?

[0] http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/

DRF is not the same as Django, fwiw.

Since you're looking for an alternative to RoR, I'm assuming you want Django. They have great docs and you might check out godjango.com

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.

I always recommend the tutorial [0] from Thinkster where you have to build a clone of G+ using Django ( DRF) and AngularJs. Try it. It's fun.

[0] https://thinkster.io/django-angularjs-tutorial

ugh that'd be great sans angularjs

Yeah. For that you should try Realpython [0]. Minimal but best. [0] https://realpython.com/blog/python/django-rest-framework-qui...

We have a pure DRF tutorial coming out on Thinkster in ~2 weeks, so stay tuned!

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

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/

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.

http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/

I found that between these two and occasional references to stacks when I felt lost, it was all I needed.

'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.

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.

For example, the first page of the "real" tutorial covers serialization in depth: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/1-serializatio...

Does faster mean speed of development or speed of code execution?

Speed of development I guess.

Speed of development.

For the vast majority of APIs, the limiting constraint on responsiveness is not code execution but your database.

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