girishgr8 / resume-builder

Creating a resume is a bit tedious task for any working professional from any industry. One has to keep it short, simple, and with the latest work experience. This Resume Builder project will help to build your resume-builder by auto-generating it on your own and helping working professionals with the same using ReactJS and NodeJS frameworks.

Resume Builder Application : TRY LIVE

UPDATE : GOOGLE SIGN-IN & SESSION MANAGEMENT FEATURES ADDED (SAVE DATA ACROSS SESSIONS)

1. React for Frontend and Express as Middleware.
2. Material UI and React-Bootstrap for styling.

Quick Start

Clone the repository and do following:

NOTE : You can see the sample .env.example which will contain the environment variables. Replace the values with your own KEYS/SECRETS/URLs and rename the file to .env instead of .env.example

# Install dependencies for server
npm install

# Install dependencies for client
npm run client-install

# Run the client & server with concurrently
npm run dev

# Run the Express server only
npm run server

# Run the React client only
npm run client

# Server runs on http://localhost:5000 and client on http://localhost:3000

Note - If you wish to change the server port number from 5000 to say port 4000, then do the following small change in package.json file of the client folder.

Demo :

Click on the image below to see the demo.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Credits :

Referred to this for setting up Google Sign-in

Developed with ❤️ by Girish Thatte

resume-builder's Issues

Resume Generation

I am unable to signup or login . It shows blank.

Bottleneck issues faced during resume generation

1. Allowing two experience which can be a bottleneck for freshers or experienced employee.
   

2. Mandatory to upload two projects what if a user has only one project
   

3. Links are not clickable
   

A better fix can be using dynamic forms.