JSON Resume

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

• Website
• Other tools/projects
  • Resumake web service
    • GitHub
• Published resumes on registry.jsonresume.org

Schema

• resume-schema
• Last update 2024-08

Open issues:

• Add "keywords" to "work"

Themes

• Official themes
  • Source code in packages/ dir
  • FR to add missing themes

Registry:

• More themes on registry.jsonresume.org
  • Source code in registry package.json
• Community jsonresume-themes on npmjs.com

Issues with ES style modules

• Modules in the registry are ES Module style packages, see also ECMAScript while other community modules are CommonJS packages
• resumed and other tools can only handle CommonJS packages for now
• Workaround: see Running the jsonresume-theme-professional theme locally

Example of ES Module themes:

• jsonresume-theme-professional

Theme notes

• jsonresume-theme-even

Outdated themes

• Kendall-bushmanov
  • Current theme
  • Last commit 2024-02
  • Fork of original Kendall theme
• Kendall
  • Last commit 2021-01
  • Example Kendall resume

Resumed cli tool

• GitHub
• NodeJS
• "Resumed is a complete reimplementation of resume-cli, using more modern technologies while dropping certain features, to remain small and focused."
• PDF export example
• Can be used with standard jsonresume-themes
• Works well, the best PDF export so far

PDF export

• Use puppeteer options to format the PDF
  • Puppeteer docs: PDFOptions

Export as PDF:

./node_modules/.bin/resumed export -o resume.pdf --theme "kendall-bushmanov"

Deprecated tools

• goresume
  • Archived, last release 2025-02
  • AUR package
  • Only 3 themes so far, none of them fit well
• 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

Official resume-cli

• Official resume-cli
  • Last release 2022-10
  • NodeJS
  • nodejs-resume-cli AUR package

Serve HTML:

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

Issues

PDF generation fails:

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

• Yaml support half-broken
  • Also based on abandoned yaml-js
  • Open PR to fix YAML support