Dynamic-json-resume

Create your resume easily using json, and add some dynamism to it, or export it as pdf.

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dynamic-json-resume

Create your resume easily using json, and add some dynamism to it, or export it as pdf.

This started as a small weekend project. In the end, it took me 2/3 afternoons to finish it and have it published on npm.

Inspiration:

  • json-resume
  • This blog post, as I really liked the content loaded as you scroll on the right. I wanted to have the same, in a simple way for my resume.

Installation:

npm install (--save) json-resume-dynamic

Usage:

  • You will have to fill out your resume following a specific json schema.
  • This assumes that you are using express for the server part if you want to display your resume on your website.
  • If you are not interested in showcasing your resume on your website, you can just export it as a PDF and skip directly to How to generate a PDF from my json file?

JSON Schema:

Your resume will be divided into 6 sections, all englobed into a resume JSON object.

Contact section:

"contact" : {
        "first_name": "",
        "last_name": "",
        "website": "",
        "email": "",
        "github": "",
        "city": ""
    }

Optional: website and github

Education section:

This will be composed of an array of item-education englobed into an education JSON object.

An item-education has this form:

  "item-education": {
    "start-date": "",
    "end-date": "",
    "institution": {
        "name": "",
        "city": "",
        "country": ""
    },
    "description": "",
    "additional-info": ""
  }

Optional: additional-info.

Work section:

This will be composed of an array of item-work englobed into a work JSON object.

"item-work": {
    "start-date": "",
    "end-date": "",
    "position": "",
    "company": {
        "name": "",
        "city": "",
        "country": ""
     },
    "achievements": "",
    "technologies": ["", ""]
}

Project section:

This will be composed of an array of item-projects englobed into a projects JSON object.

"item-projects": {
    "title": "",
    "description":"",
    "technologies": []
}

Skills section:

This is just an array of strings with the key "skills"

 "skills" : ["skill1", "skill2"]

Languages and Hobbies sections:

This will be composed of an array of item-languages englobed into a languages and an array of item-hobbies into a hobbies JSON object respectively.


"item-languages": {
    "name": "",
    "additional-info": ""
}

{
"item-hobbies": {
    "name": "",
    "additional-info": ""
}

Optional: additional-info.

How to add extra content for your resume?

This is done by adding two properties only to the items of your JSON's schema:

  1. You need to add an id attribute
  2. You need to add an extra JSON object having two properties:
"extra" {
  "type": "text" || "images"
  "extraContent": <html string> || <string> if type == "text" 
                  [<url-image>] or <url-image> if type == "images"
}

You can find an empty schema in resume-schema.json at the root of the module or a working schema in examples/my-resume.json.

API:

Two methods only:

getResumeWithExtras(strResumeAsJson) returns an object containing the resume section as result.resume and the extras section as result.extraContent

It will parse the JSON string provided and verify that:

  • all the mandatory fields are declared.
  • each extra object has an id.

If something is wrong, the error message should give you a good indication on how fix your issue!

getTemplatePath(nameTemplate) returns the template location within the module.

How to generate a PDF for my resume?

  1. Go into the module folder
  2. Run ./cli.js export <json_path> [output_location] [css_file_location]

By default it will generate a resume.pdf file in the current directory.

Complete example to integrate this into your node app (assuming you use node-express and mustache-express):
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var fs = require('fs');
var mustacheExpress = require('mustache-express');
var dynamicJsonResume = require('json-resume-dynamic');
var app = express()

app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'static')));

app.engine('html', mustacheExpress());
app.set('view engine', 'html');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/templates');


app.get('/', function(request, response) {
var resumeJsonFile = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/my-resume.json", 'utf-8', function (err, data) {
});

var resume = dynamicJsonResume.getResumeWithExtras(resumeJsonFile);
if (resume) {
response.render(dynamicJsonResume.getTemplatePath('cv'), resume);
}
});

var port = process.env.PORT || 5000;

app.listen(port, function() {
console.log("Listening on " + port);
});

Mentions:

You can find a quickly done example here: http://resume-jeremydagorn.herokuapp.com/. You can of course modify the theme/style of your resume by playing around with those files.