CV Generator

This package will generate a CV (.tex and .pdf) for you from a .json input (schema specified below).

How to run

1. Clone the package, and run npm i to install all dependencies.
2. Replace the filler data in data/cv.json
3. node index.js
4. Your pdf is saved in out/

Options

--dataFile=<filename>.json  A JSON file in the data/ folder containing CV data.
--outputFile=<filename>     The filename to use for output of tex and pdf output
--texOut                    Output tex as well as pdf

Data Format

An example file is provided in data/template.json

The JSON file consists of a single object, containing fields name, contact, websites, and sections. These are detailed below.

{
  "name": "a string representing your name",
  "contact": {
    "phone": "<your phone number as a string>",
    "email": "<your email address as a string>"
  },
  "websites": ["<relevant web link 1>", ...],
  "sections": {
    "<section header>": [
      {
        "pre": "<text to appear before bullet point>",
        "post": "<text to appear before bullet point>",
        "date": "<text to appear right aligned>",
        "bullets": ["<first bullet point>", "<second bullet point>"]
      }, ...
    ]
  }
}

Note that within strings you should escape characters such as & using a \