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Author here. I made this using Haskell for the web server, and Preact for the JavaScript. The resume is converted to PDF by translating HTML into canvas and using JSPDF to turn the canvas into a PDF. Hosted on Linode. Cached with CloudFlare.

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If you ever wanted to chat more about how you built and deploy your app I'd love to have you on my podcast at https://runninginproduction.com/.

There's 0 Haskell episodes so far, you'd be the first one!

I enjoy your podcast.

Nice tool. If possible add a collection of random data to generate a random resume so that people can see a real resume before filling out their actual personal data.

Thanks for the feedback, I hope to add better preview with fake data in the future.

Do you have any plans to open source this? I love the function and have always wished something like this exists. I have my own dumb opinions on resumes like format and multiple pages, so I'd like to be able to tweak the design a bit.

No plans to open source it. If you want to make a PDF in the browser, look at using html2canvas to generate canvas from html, and passing that canvas to jspdf to make a PDF. I generate the canvas manually because html2canvas has some issues, but for most uses it works well.

This is neat! What was your experience like using this stack? Were any of these first-time or learning-oriented (rather than comfort) choices?

I’ve used Haskell and Preact before. I love Haskell. I’ve arrived at this stack after a decade of developing webapps. The foundation to my approach is simplicity. I don’t have a JS build step at all (no npm, no transpiling, no bundling, etc.), and avoid frameworks and libraries if possible. I don’t use a traditional component approach with Preact, but a purely functional approach (like Elm). I would prefer to use a purely functional type-safe language on the front end, but the friction with browser APIs and build pipelines is not worth it.

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