Using JavaScript as a universal language for your web application sounds super nice, but how to get started? In this talk we will build our first node application together. Learn about common packages (and what npm is), as well as drivers and design patterns. We will learn how to send serverside JS clientside, how to write our own modules, and where to look for simple hosting. This isn't a "write a webserver in a few minutes" talk, we're going past that and walking out with a fully functional Node.js web application in 60 minutes.