Building front-ends are not covered in COMP1531. CSE offers a few courses relating to them though:
These skills will help prevent you building bad interfaces.
Today we're going to write a very basic web application.
Javascript is the "programming language" of front-ends. The interpreters for the language are built directly into your web browser. Most modern web browsers build their Javascript interpreter on top of the popular V8 engine.
We can use Javascript to make API calls and display results.