🎓 Learn n8n Expressions with an Interactive Step-by-Step Tutorial for Beginners

n8n template #5271

Summary

How it works This template is an interactive, step-by-step tutorial designed to teach you the most important skill in n8n: using expressions to access and manipulate data. If you know what JSON is but aren't sure how to pull a specific piece of information from one node and use it in another, this workflow is for you. It starts with a single "Source Data" node that acts as our filing cabinet, and then walks you through a series of lessons, each demonstrating a new technique for retrieving and transforming that data. You will learn how to: Access a simple value from a previous node. Use n8n's built-in selectors like .last() and .first(). Get a specific item from a list (Array). Drill down int

How to set it up

Open template #5271 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
No app accounts to connect: every node is built into n8n.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "🎓 Learn n8n Expressions with an Interactive Step-by-Step Tutorial for Beginners" (https://n8n.io/workflows/5271). It uses: . Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

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Questions

Yes. Lucas Peyrin published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 28K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

None. All 0 nodes are built into n8n.