title: Make a dropdown filter on a webpage that can read a .csv file and populate the dropdown menu
body: <p><strong>A little context:</strong> I work in a totally different department from web development but my current project needs me to make a webpage. I'm absolutely new to web development and have only a basic idea of HTML and CSS.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What needs to be done?</strong>: I made a webpage and I need to place a drop-down filter in the webpage which should be populated by the data from only one column in a .csv file that's stored locally in the PC. <strong>The column will have duplicate records but I need only distinct records to be shown in the drop-down filter.</strong></p>
  
  <p>A little research led me to realizing that I need to create an API using node.js. I have no exposure to node.js, let alone creating APIs. I'm hoping someone must have done this before and I'd be grateful if someone could tell me where and how do I get started on how to do this.</p>