salomonelli/best-resume-ever

Best-resume-ever is a tool for creating beautifully designed resumes (CVs) and exporting them as PDF files. Instead of fiddling with a word processor or wrestling with resume website builders, you fill in your data in a simple YAML file (a plain text format for storing structured information), drop in your profile photo, then pick from a set of pre-designed visual templates and export a polished PDF with one command. The tool provides multiple template styles shown in the README, named Cool, Creative, Green, Purple, Side Bar, Left Right, Material Dark, and Oblique, each with distinct layouts and color schemes. Several templates also have right-to-left variants for languages read from right to left. Under the hood it is built with Vue (a JavaScript framework for building web interfaces) and LESS (a CSS preprocessor, a tool that extends CSS styling with extra features like variables). It uses Puppeteer to automate the PDF export, meaning it opens your resume in a headless browser (a browser with no visible window) and takes a screenshot of it as a PDF. The workflow is: clone the repo, run npm install to set up dependencies, edit your data and replace the sample photo, run npm run dev to preview all templates in your browser on a local server, then run npm run export to generate PDF files for all templates at once. You would use this if you want a developer-friendly, code-controlled way to produce a consistently styled resume without relying on design software.