Front-End developers nowadays have several frameworks and software that help them
develop their applications. During software development, some common activities
require time and effort from the developers, such as the creation of basic registrations
with routines for creating, reading, changing, and deleting data. More specifically, in the
case of interface development, a lot of time is invested in the front-end implementation
of these systems. Therefore, tools can be used to reduce this effort for developers. This
work presents the Proto2Code tool, which can speed up the development process
by generating front-end code (HTML and CSS) from interface prototypes. For this, a
methodology was adopted which is divided into six steps for the construction of a code
generator. To validate this version of the tool, a pilot study was conducted with two web
developers who participated, in two stages, in the use of the tool. As a result, we found
that the tool helps less experienced developers who use more traditional development
tools, depending also on the type of prototype used.
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