fluentcmd
=========
*Generate beautiful, targeted resumes from your command line or shell.*

FluentCMD is a **hackable, data-driven, Markdown-and-JSON-friendly resume authoring tool** with support for HTML, Word, PDF, plain text, and other arbitrary-format resumes and CVs.

[![](assets/office_space.jpg)][8]

Looking for a desktop version with pretty timelines and graphs? Check out [FluentCV Desktop][7].

## Features

- Runs on OS X, Linux, and Windows. If you can run Node.js, you can run fluentcmd.
- Store your resume data as a durable, versionable JSON, YML, or XML document.
- Generate multiple targeted resumes in multiple formats, based on your needs.
- Output to HTML, PDF, Markdown, Word, JSON, XML, or other arbitrary formats.
- Compatible with the [JSON Resume][6] standard and [compatible tools][7].
- Free and open-source through the MIT license.

## Install

First make sure [Node.js][4] and [NPM][5] are installed. Then:

1. (Optional, for PDF support) Install the latest official [wkhtmltopdf][3] binary for your platform.
2. Install fluentcmd by running `npm install` followed by `npm link`.

## Use

Assuming you've got a JSON-formatted resume handy, generating output resumes is easy. Just run:

`fluentcmd inputs [outputs] [-t theme]`.

Where `inputs` is one or more .json resume files, `[outputs]` is one or more destination resumes, and `[theme]` is the desired theme. For example:

```bash
# Generate all resume formats (HTML, PDF, DOC, TXT)
fluentcmd resume.json resume.all -t informatic

# Generate a specific resume format
fluentcmd resume.json resume.html -t informatic
fluentcmd resume.json resume.txt -t informatic
fluentcmd resume.json resume.pdf -t informatic
fluentcmd resume.json resume.doc -t informatic
```

You should see something to the effect of:

```
*** FluentCMD v0.1.0 ***
Reading JSON resume: foo/resume.json
Generating HTML resume: out/resume.html
Generating TXT resume: out/resume.txt
Generating DOC resume: out/resume.doc
Generating PDF resume: out/resume.pdf
```

## Advanced

### Merging resumes

You can **merge multiple resumes together** by specifying them in order from most generic to most specific:

```bash
# Merge specific.json onto base.json and generate all formats
fluentcmd base.json specific.json resume.all
```

This can be useful for overriding a base (generic) resume with information from a specific (targeted) resume. For example, you might override your generic catch-all "software developer" resume with specific details from your targeted "game developer" resume. Merging follows conventional [extend()][9]-style behavior.

### Multiple targets

You can specify **multiple output targets** and FluentCMD will build them:

```bash
# Generate out1.doc, out1.pdf, and foo.txt from me.json.
fluentcmd me.json out1.doc out1.pdf foo.txt
```

You can also omit the output file(s) and/or theme completely:

```bash
# Equivalent to "fluentcmd resume.json resume.all -t informatic"
fluentcmd resume.json
```

### Using .all

The special `.all` extension tells FluentCMD to generate all supported output formats for the given resume. For example, this...

```bash
# Generate all resume formats (HTML, PDF, DOC, TXT, etc.)
fluentcmd input.json output.all
```

..tells FluentCV to read `input.json` and generate `output.doc`, `output.html`, `output.txt`, `output.pdf`. That's more or less equivalent to:

```bash
# Generate all resume formats (HTML, PDF, DOC, TXT)
fluentcmd input.json output.doc output.html output.txt output.pdf
```

## License

MIT. Go crazy. See [LICENSE.md][1] for details.

[1]: LICENSE.md
[2]: http://phantomjs.org/
[3]: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/
[4]: https://nodejs.org/
[5]: https://www.npmjs.com/
[6]: http://jsonresume.org
[7]: http://fluentcv.com
[8]: https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8
[9]: https://api.jquery.com/jquery.extend/