Front-end developers translate website design into functional code. They use HTML to create the website’s skeleton, design the look with CSS and make it interactive using JavaScript.

What does this mean for front-end development? Over the coming years, the delineation between “product design” and “front-end development” as separate functions will disappear.

Each component file held both the front-end design prototype and the actual CMS template — keeping everything in sync because both parts were in one file and were easy to track and update.

To summarize, an HTML front end using servlets and JSPs is a great way to develop static content (and folks, please use a professional artist to design those pages).

We’ll look at three Python web frameworks that follow this paradigm, allowing you to describe front-end code (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) using back-end Python code. The front-end objects are ...