docker-hackmyresume

• Summary
• Motivation
• Acknowledgements
• Building the image
• Using the image
• Known issues

Summary

Docker image that allows you to generate multiple output formats using hackmyresume.

Highlights:

• Based on alpine
• qt patched version of wkhtmltopdf is installed for exporting to PDF
• Base image with wkhtmltopdf and hackmyresume
• Is used as base by hackmyresume-all-themes image that adds
• some preinstalled JSON Resume themes on top

Motivation

I was exploring Hackmyresume as a tool for generating my resume and wanted a docker image that would take my resume and generate an exported version. There are different docker images in docker Hub that contain hackmyresume but I didn't found an image that would fullfill all of my requirements:

• Based on Alpine for size reduction
• Containing a qt patched version of wkhtmltopdf
• Having preinstalled themes into the image
• Having pinned version of main components for consistency
• Using a multistage build for the patched wkthmltopdf version

Acknowledgements

aantonw, whose image is used to fetch the patched wkhtmltopdf binaries

Building the image

There is nothing special regarding the build procedure, just run docker build:

docker build -t kir4h/hackmyresume .

or use the Makefile

make build

Using the image

The usage is the same as for hackmyresume-all-themes image except for the fact that there are no preinstalled JSON resume themes. fresh themes are though already available out of the box with hackmyresume

In order to have persistent JSON resume themes one can:

• Create his own docker image from this one, adding the desired theme(s)
• Use a named volume mounted on /usr/lib/node_modules/ so that themes are persisted. A bind mount should also work but as it would shadow the base image folder hackmyresume would need to be reinstalled

Known issues

I have observed issues for some of the themes:

• in some cases the html version looks fine but pdf doesn't
• in some cases the pdf version looks fine but html doesn't
• for some themes the profile picture is ignored

Since this is an old project and themes are also old, I guess there are some incompatibilities with themes and versions, or even maybe with wkhtmltopdf. If this is something that can be fixed from this Docker image I am more than happy to accept PRs.