📝 Curriculum Vitae (CV) Template

A minimalistic CV / Resume template for academic and professional use, designed with React and Semantic UI by Mert Yaşin

🔗 GitHub Pages Demo

Visit mrtysn.github.io/cv

Documentation

• 📋 Project Progress
• 💻 How to Run Locally
• 🛠️ How to Deploy to GitHub Pages
• 🖨️ How to Save as a PDF
• 🎨 How to Customize the CV for yourself
• 🐌 Does a CV Need to be a Bloated Web Application?
• 🙌 How to Contribute

📋 Project Progress

• See the current progress at the kanban board of this project
• Browse the open issues on GitHub

💻 How to Run Locally

On the root folder of the project, run:

• pnpm install
• pnpm run start
• Visit localhost:3000

🛠️ How to Deploy to GitHub Pages

Make sure your GitHub repository is properly configured for GitHub Pages:

• Set source to deploy from branch
• Set branch to gh-pages
• Set folder to / (root)
• Update the homepage URL in package.json with your GitHub username

On the root folder of the project, run:

• pnpm install
• pnpm run predeploy
• pnpm run deploy
• Visit {your-username}.github.io/cv

🖨️ How to Save as a PDF

• 👨‍💻 If you are working locally on your computer

  • Run pnpm install and pnpm run start
  • Visit localhost:3000 (where the app is running)

• 🌐 If you have already deployed to a public website

  • Visit {your-username}.github.io/cv (where you deployed it)

• 🖨️ Open the print dialog by hitting ctrl/cmd + P on your keyboard or by right clicking the web page

  • 🖊️ Set margins to custom. Manually, set the top and bottom margins to around 0.19 inches inches and the rest to 0. This is (unfortunately) necessary to get the text to align properly while dealing with CSS and the browser print dialog.
  • 🖌️ Disable headers and footers
  • 🧹 Enable background graphics so you get that nice accent color
  • 📃 Set page size to A4
  • 💾 Set the destination to Save as PDF, and save
  • 📤 Remember to properly rename the document before sending it out!

🎨 How to Customize the CV for yourself

• ⤴️ Fork the repository to your own account.

• 📖 Read it, seriously. Go to App.js and see the main structure in the React code:

  • Header - name, title and contact info
  • Experience - jobs, internships, contracts
  • Education - schools, courses, theses
  • Skills - optional, group your know-how by categories
  • Achievements - extracurricular activities
  • Footer - optional, author attribution and links. Keep it if you want to support me

• ✂️ Start replacing the in-line content with your own. Learning what to put where might take some time as this project is not completely modular at the moment. There isn't a json file to edit to replace all the contents (yet).

• ⌨️ With that said, there are only a few main React components you would be working with. They accept the following props:

  • SectionItem (Used both in Education and Experience)
    • Company Title
    • Location
    • Job Title
    • Start Date
    • End Date (optional)
    • Description (optional, short paragraph)
    • Items (optional, main bullet points, I prefer this over description)
    • Relevant Items (optional, smaller bullet points mainly for listing classes)
  • SkillRow (Used in Skills)
    • Title (e.g. game development)
    • Items (e.g. godot, unity3d, unreal)
  • Achievements (Extracurricular)
    • Items (e.g. hobbies, awards, certificates)

• Once you are familiarized with the structure of the repository, copy pasting from your existing CV (probably a docx) and editing the code should be easier. The fastest way to edit would be searching throughout the code for the text you would like to replace.

• You have complete control of the layout. I found text editors to be insufficient for my margin and padding needs, that's why I built this. ✨ Style as you wish ✨, or keep it as it is.

• Most of the styling is handled by Semantic UI and App.css. However, you'll find custom in-line stylings and one-off CSS classes in the code. CSS in code is not ideal, but it's sometimes the fastest to iterate with.

• If your styling changes fail due to a conflict with Semantic UI, the !important flag is (sometimes) your friend.

• Don't forget to update the homepage URL in package.json with your GitHub username if you want to deploy this web application to GitHub Pages.

• Check the constants.js file if you are using the Footer component, to properly date and version your CV. Remember this will be an always-updating document throughout your career and it's very useful to keep everything in check.

• Tip: You can maintain multiple versions of your CV for different job titles through separate git branches. Versioning also helps keep track of your applications since you would know which variant you applied with.

🐌 Does a CV Need to be a Bloated Web Application?

No, it doesn't. What could be a simple document is transformed into a much larger package with this project. However, after finalizing your resume, there are ways to minimize the end result:

• You can render the React application into static HTML. This minified version (around 50-300KB) can be deployed on the web or used as a document.
• You can save the webpage as a PDF, which can be further compressed using mainstream PDF editor tools, reducing it from around 1MB to 700KB.

For individuals versed in web development, this serves as an intuitive method to efficiently generate, update, and distribute a CV.

🙌 How to Contribute

First of all, how kind of you 🤗

You can

• ⤴️ Fork this project and create your own CV
• 💯 Make suggestions and report problems through GitHub issues
• ↩️ Send pull requests via GitHub
• ⭐ Star this project on GitHub

You might

• 🗣️ Tell your friends and co-workers about your new CV
• 💭 Talk about this CV/resume template on social media

You are welcome to

• 📧 Mail me through mert.yasin@gmail.com
• ♟️ Follow me on github/mrtysn
• 🐦 Follow me on twitter/mertyas_in
• 🆗 Add me on linkedin/mert-yasin