reactive-resume

A one-of-a-kind resume builder that keeps your privacy in mind. Completely secure, customizable, portable, open-source and free forever. Try it out today!

⭐ 36,615 stars on GitHub · 🍴 4,087 forks · 📜 License: mit · 💻 Language: TypeScript

What is reactive-resume?

A privacy-first resume builder is a strong alternative to SaaS tools that lock your CV behind accounts, subscriptions, or opaque data policies. The differentiator is simple: you can run the full application yourself, keep ownership of your resume data, and still get a polished editor with templates, sharing, and PDF export.

Main components

• Browser-based resume editor with real-time preview while you write
• Professionally designed templates with A4 and Letter page support
• PDF and JSON export, including portability through JSON Resume import
• Drag-and-drop section ordering plus custom sections for non-standard profiles
• Styling controls for colors, fonts, spacing, rich text, and advanced custom CSS
• Optional AI integrations with OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude
• Secure account features including passkeys and two-factor authentication
• Self-hostable TypeScript stack using React, TanStack Start, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Docker Compose

Clear use cases

• Build a personal resume system you can keep long-term without paying a resume-builder subscription
• Maintain multiple resume versions for different roles, clients, industries, or seniority levels
• Host an internal CV builder for a bootcamp, university career center, recruitment team, or developer community
• Create a portable resume workflow where users can export JSON, move platforms, or regenerate PDFs later
• Share public resume links while retaining control over hosting, deletion, and data access
• Customize layouts beyond fixed commercial templates using CSS and custom sections

The biggest strength is data ownership without giving up usability — Reactive Resume feels like a modern SaaS resume editor, but you can deploy it on your own infrastructure and avoid third-party tracking, ads, and account lock-in. Compared with commercial resume builders, the value is not just that it is free; it gives technical users and organizations a practical way to standardize resume creation while keeping sensitive career data under their own policies.

Best for developers, sysadmins, career programs, and privacy-conscious teams that want a polished self-hosted resume builder instead of another closed SaaS account.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ better-auth
• 🏷️ hacktoberfest
• 🏷️ react
• 🏷️ resume
• 🏷️ resume-builder
• 🏷️ self-hosted
• 🏷️ tailwindcss
• 🏷️ tanstack-start

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/amruthpillai/reactive-resume.git
cd reactive-resume
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: amruthpillai/reactive-resume
• 🌐 Homepage: https://rxresu.me
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.