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.

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

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 standard and compatible tools.
• Free and open-source through the MIT license.

Install

First make sure Node.js and NPM are installed. Then:

1. (Optional, for PDF support) Install the latest official wkhtmltopdf 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:

# 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:

# 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()-style behavior.

Multiple targets

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

# 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:

# 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...

# 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:

# 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 for details.