Frontend Developer Resume Examples & Writing Guide

A one-page resume for a frontend developer with seven years across an agency and a healthtech product company. The name and companies are made up. Notice that the stack sits in the title line, the header links to GitHub and a portfolio, and every bullet has a number a manager can picture: users, load time, bundle size, test coverage, bugs, conversion.

A frontend resume is usually screened twice: a recruiter matches the stack against the posting, then the hiring manager or a senior engineer spends about a minute on it. They look for four things, in this order.

• Stack match. If the team runs React and TypeScript, they want to see React and TypeScript in your title line and in your bullets, not in a list of 30 tools. Vue or Angular teams likewise. Be honest about depth: "Vue (production, 2 years)" beats a bare list.
• Shipped work with impact. Something that reached users, with a number: sessions, load time, conversion, accessibility findings closed, test coverage, bugs down. A feature you built and maintained for a year says more than five you touched.
• Code they can open. A GitHub profile with a pinned project that has a README, tests and commits over time; a portfolio or a live app. Managers do open these, especially for junior and mid-level candidates.
• Fundamentals. Plain JavaScript, CSS layout, the browser (rendering, network, storage), accessibility and performance basics. Frameworks change; a resume that mentions Core Web Vitals and WCAG signals someone who understands the platform.

“The first thing checked is the framework and whether the candidate has owned a real product surface. The second is the GitHub link. If the pinned repo has tests and a readable README, the interview is already half booked.”

"Frontend developer resume github" is one of the most typed searches for this job, and for good reason: the link is often the deciding factor. Put GitHub, a portfolio or live project, and LinkedIn in the header as short readable URLs (no tracking parameters, no URL shorteners). Then make sure what they find is worth opening.

• GitHub: pin 2 to 4 repositories that match the job. Each should have a README with a screenshot, what it does, how to run it, and the stack; a test folder; and a commit history that shows work over weeks, not one "initial commit". Archive or unpin tutorial clones.
• Portfolio or live app: one deployed project you can talk about for 20 minutes beats six templates. State what you built yourself if it was a team project. A personal site is fine but it is not a project unless it does something.
• LinkedIn: titles, dates and stack should match the resume exactly. Recruiters compare them.
• Do not link: private repos, a GitHub with a green graph full of forks and nothing else, a portfolio that fails on mobile (reviewers check on their phone), or a resume PDF hosted on a random file-sharing site.

Group your skills so a reader can find the framework in one second and see the depth in the next. Ten to sixteen items, grouped, no skill bars or star ratings (they are meaningless and applicant tracking systems cannot read them).

• Languages: JavaScript (say the version or features you use), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3. Do not lead with HTML; every posting assumes it.
• Framework and ecosystem: React with Next.js or Remix; Vue with Nuxt; Angular; Svelte. Add state and data tools (Redux Toolkit, TanStack Query, Pinia, NgRx) and the router you use.
• Styling: Tailwind, CSS Modules, styled-components, Sass, design tokens, responsive and container queries, animation basics.
• Quality: Jest or Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright or Cypress, Storybook, visual regression, ESLint and Prettier, type-safe API clients.
• Performance and accessibility: Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), Lighthouse, bundle analysis, lazy loading, image and font strategy; WCAG 2.2, ARIA, keyboard navigation, screen reader testing.
• Build, deploy and observe: Vite, Webpack, Turbopack; GitHub Actions or GitLab CI; Vercel, Netlify, AWS; Sentry, analytics events, feature flags.
• Working skills that count in this field: reading Figma files and pushing back on designs that will not ship, writing clear pull requests, API contract discussions with backend developers, estimating and shipping in sprints.

A strong frontend bullet names the product surface, the stack, the scale (users, sessions, pages, components) and a measured outcome: load time, bundle size, accessibility findings, test coverage, bugs, conversion or delivery speed.

Three lines: years and stack, the product you built and its scale, one or two measured results. Freshers write a short objective that names the stack, one real project and what they want.

Without a job title to lean on, your projects are your experience section. Two or three real projects, described like jobs, beat a long skills list. Managers hiring juniors want to see that you can finish something, that you test it, and that you can explain your choices.

1. 1Header with GitHub, a live project link and LinkedIn. If your GitHub is thin, fix that before you send a single application.
2. 2Objective of two or three lines: stack you know, one project with a real user or a real number, the role you want.
3. 3Projects section above education: 2 or 3 projects with name, year, stack, what it does, who uses it, and numbers (users, tests, Lighthouse score, API endpoints, components). Say what you built if it was a team or bootcamp project.
4. 4Education: degree or bootcamp with dates; relevant coursework only if it is specific (data structures, human-computer interaction, web development). Skip GPA unless it is above 3.5.
5. 5Skills grouped as in the section above, limited to what you can code live.
6. 6Any work at all, one or two lines each, with a number: retail, support, tutoring. Managers like juniors who have held a job. One page.

• One page up to about 8 years; two pages for senior and lead roles with several products and a team. Nobody reads page three.
• Order: header with links; title line with stack; summary; experience (or projects for juniors); skills; education. Certifications are optional in front-end work and go last.
• Plain single-column layout, real text, no photo, no skill bars, no icons for section headers. Companies hire through Greenhouse, Lever, Workday and similar systems that parse text; a two-column design with graphics often loses your dates.
• Text-based PDF named Firstname-Lastname-Frontend-Developer.pdf. Do not send a link to a Figma or Canva design as your resume.
• Keywords: mirror the posting's spelling. Postings use "front end", "front-end" and "frontend" interchangeably, so use the posting's form in your title and one other form once in the body. Include the framework, TypeScript, testing tools, "accessibility", "performance", "responsive", "REST" or "GraphQL", "CI/CD" and "Agile" if they appear.
• In the UK and Europe the document is a frontend developer CV; same content, and still no photo for UK applications.
• Run the PDF through the cvplex ATS checker with the posting pasted in. It reports which stack words are missing and which bullets have no measurable result.