Generate Your Resume with JsonResume

I got tired of updating my resume after realizing the last update was written in… Apple Pages. The brilliant Mikey Lombardi told me about this in passing at some point. When I needed to give an updated resume, I decided to give a shot and instantly loved it.

Perks:

• JSON
• Self hosting - not necessary but easy to do.
• Lot’s of built in tools
• A few nice themes.

Simple Start

I started with writing a GitHub gist named resume.json (e.g. https://gist.github.com/HeyItsGilbert/f2746e7f16b51429e655de5d8dceebe1). You can leave it at that and just navigate to https://registry.jsonresume.org/HeyItsGilbert. For you, it would be your GitHub username.

Self Hosting

I liked being able to self host my static sites. I also thought it would be nice to host it under something like https://resume.gilbertsanchez.com.

To do this, I need to create a repository (https://github.com/HeyItsGilbert/resume) and add the following things:

1. resume.json - This should match the gist.
2. package.json - NPM config to install resumed and the theme.
3. .github/workflows/gist.yml - A workflow that will publish the resume.json from this repo to the gist.
4. A public directory (with a .gitkeep). It’s what netlify will use.

Package.json

The package.json defines the different scripts to run as well as what dependancies.

{
  "private": true,
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "init": "resumed init",
    "start": "resumed --theme jsonresume-theme-elegant",
    "build": "resumed --theme jsonresume-theme-elegant && cp resume.html public/index.html"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jsonresume-theme-elegant": "^1.16.1",
    "jsonresume-theme-even": "^0.17.0",
    "resumed": "^3.0.0"
  }
}

Netlify

• Build Command: yarn build
• Publish directory: public Netlify will see changes to the repository and run the build command in the package.json.

Gist Workflow

This action will run on push and updates the resume.json under my gist. You will need to update it to match your gist_id.

name: Update Resume Gist
on: push
jobs:
  update-resume-gist:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest 
    steps:
    - name: Checkout Repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - name: Update Resume Gist
      uses: exuanbo/actions-deploy-gist@v1
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
        gist_id: f2746e7f16b51429e655de5d8dceebe1
        file_path: resume.json