How long did it take you to master n8n?
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When does someone master n8n?
I still learn new stuff and have been working with n8n for almost 5 years now.
That being said. It all depends on your background and how fast you pickup things.
For me coming from a BI/Data Engineering background with some coding experience, it was all rather smooth/fast after the basics clicked.
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Hi @Ninwaya_Younan Welcome to the community!
N8N itself is a tool where you can compute , produce , return, edit and many more manipulations things you can do on data, so what i want you to understand is that if you truly want to understand and learn how things work here, consider going through how data flows in n8n cause if you have mastered the data control nodes and specially the code node, you will be able to manipulate almost everything around it cause in the end n8n is data coming in from some source and going out, so consider doing basic data course from here:
And once you are comfortable with dealing with data you would learn your way , as n8n is a open ended tool you can connect it to anything which supports basic HTTP or internet protocols , so just master how data flows between nodes and you will find yourself a lot more skilled in n8n than before.
Honestly there’s no “mastering” it, you just get faster at knowing which nodes to reach for and how data flows between them. If you’re comfortable with basic JSON and APIs you’ll pick up the core stuff in a couple weeks, the rest you learn as you hit new use cases. The docs and this community are solid for filling in gaps as you go.
@Ninwaya_Younan The time it takes depends entirely on your goals and how fast you pickup things.