Actual letter theme for JSON Resume

Hacky theme for creating minimalist and modern cover letters using JSON Resume standard.

• Export examples

If you are looking for a complete resume theme, maybe you would like to take a look at jsonresume-theme-actual.

Table of contents

• What is JSON Resume?
• Prerequisites
• Export letter
• Contribute
• Support

What is JSON Resume?

JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create JSON-based standard for resumes.

Prerequisites

• node.js runtime with resume-cli

npm install -g resume-cli

Export letter

• Create your resume.json file (you can start by editing this)
• Create your cover-letter.md file (optional)

You can inform the body of your letter by adding the resume.basics.coverLetter to your resume.json file, or by creating a file cover-letter.md file

npm install jsonresume-theme-actual-letter

resume export letter.pdf --format pdf --theme actual-letter
resume export letter.html --format html --theme actual-letter

Contribute

git clone [email protected]:davcd/jsonresume-theme-actual-letter.git
cd jsonresume-theme-actual-letter

npm install

gulp

You can live edit any .scss or .pug file

Support

resume.basics

This theme supports only the resume.basics JSON path

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Richard Hendriks",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "(912) 555-4321",
    "coverLetter": "Dear Robert C. Martin, I want to express my interest in the open position...",
    "location": {
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "California"
    }
  }
}

• resume.basics.coverLetter supports markdown

cover-letter.md file

If resume.basics.coverLetter JSON path is missing, this theme will look for a cover-letter.md file to retrieve the body of the letter