News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by siilikuin on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:54PM (#36470902)
Nice work, Xitang. Curious to know if this supports the JSON Resume format.
Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by xitang on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:12PM (#36471069)
Thanks for your kind words. When creating the resume state structure, I have considered making it a JSON Resume format so it is compatible with other JSON Resume as well as tools that built on top of JSON Resume. However, after looking more into JSON Resume's schema, I find it to be a bit more restrictive than I would like, e.g. it includes a startDate and endDate as date type for work experience, but I want to combine both into date so user can type anything they like `June 2022 - Present` or `06/2022 - Present`. Also, for skills, JSON Resume has a very fixed structured but I want to give users the freedom to type anything in any format. Overall, I think JSONResume works well on its own and defines each field very well. But when thinking in product level, these restrictions might pose too much restrictions, so I ultimately create my own custom resume state type.
Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by dr_kiszonka on Sunday June 25, 2023 @03:56PM (#36471963)
This sounds reasonable. If exporting a JSON resume is not possible, maybe you could support importing one?
Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by xitang on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:01PM (#36473552)
Great point. Top of my head, it seems possible and easier to support import from JSON resume instead of export. Just created an issue to keep track of it: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/12