CLI

npm install -g resume-cli
# or run without installing
npx resume-cli --help

resume-cli needs Node.js 18 or later. Source: packages/cli.

Commands

Command	What it does
`resume init`	Creates `resume.json` from the sample (prompts for name and email)
`resume validate`	Checks `resume.json` against the schema
`resume export <file>`	Writes `.html`, `.pdf`, `.md` or `.txt`, chosen by the extension
`resume serve`	Serves your resume at `http://localhost:4000` with live reload
`resume themes`	Lists the themes installed locally (the names to pass to `--theme`)
`resume audit`	Scores the resume for applicant-tracking-system friendliness

Common options:

--resume <file>: use a file other than resume.json (- reads stdin). A .jsonc file may contain comments and trailing commas
--theme <name>: theme for HTML and PDF; defaults to even
--format <type>: set the export format explicitly

--theme even resolves the npm package jsonresume-theme-even. Install themes in your project (npm install jsonresume-theme-<name>); the CLI also finds the themes it ships with. Scoped packages are passed by their full name:

resume export resume.html --theme @jsonresume/jsonresume-theme-professional

A local theme under development can be passed as a path:

resume export resume.html --theme ./my-theme

PDF on Linux CI and containers

PDF export runs headless Chrome. Where Chrome can't start its sandbox (common in Docker and CI), set:

RESUME_PUPPETEER_NO_SANDBOX=1 resume export resume.pdf

Alternative: resumed

resumed is a smaller community CLI with the same theme ecosystem:

npm install -g resumed jsonresume-theme-even
resumed render resume.json --theme jsonresume-theme-even

Commands

Themes

PDF on Linux CI and containers

Alternative: resumed

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