Node.js is one of the fastest growing platforms for building scalable web applications. In this workshop, attendees will learn how to get up and running quickly with Node, it's background and history, and the problems that it seeks to address. In addition, they will see how asynchronous, event-based development works with Express, Node's more popular web framework. Finally, attendees will build, together with each other and the instructors, their own Real Time Web Applications.