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JSON Resume

The open source initiative to create a JSON-based standard for resumes. For developers, by developers.

Themes

Nice themes:

Official resume-cli

Serve HTML:

./node_modules/.bin/resume serve --resume resume.yaml --theme caffeine

PDF generation fails:

./node_modules/.bin/resume export --theme caffeine varac.pdf

Yaml support

Usage (PDF generation doesn't work):

npm install jsonresume-theme-caffeine
./node_modules/.bin/resume export --resume resume.yaml --theme caffeine varac.pdf

Other tools

  • goresume

    • Recent releases
    • AUR package
    • Only 3 themes so far, none of them fit well
  • Resumed
    • NodeJS
    • "Resumed is a complete reimplementation of resume-cli, using more modern technologies while dropping certain features, to remain small and focused."
    • Last commit 2023-01
    • PDF export example
    • Can be used with standard jsonresume-themes
    • Works well, the best PDF export so far

Deprecated tools

  • KissMyResume
    • Stalled 2020
    • Uses puppeteer Headless Chrome Node API
    • Silently stops without producing a PDF using ./node_modules/.bin/kissmyresume build -v -f PDF -t node_modules/jsonresume-theme-kendall resume.json
  • HackMyResume
    • Uses wkhtmltopdf to generate (not so great quality) PDF
    • Stalled 2018
  • resume-pycli
    • Archived 2023 in favor of goresume
    • Uses wkhtmltopdf to generate (not so great quality) PDF
    • Themes: Ships 3 own themes, not compatible with jsonresume themes.
      • Flat: Links are shown twice, ugly
      • Stackoverflow: Shows a <br> at the end of the work summary, and no icons at additional Gitlab links
      • Base: Unusable, only shows header

Yaml resume