themes.html

---
layout: default
title: Themes
---

<header id="header">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-sm-12">
        <h1>Themes</h1>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</header>
<div id="themes" class="container">
  <p>
    There are over
    <a
      href="https://www.npmjs.com/search?ranking=maintenance&q=jsonresume-theme"
      >400+ npm packages</a
    >
    of themes that we pick official themes from. They are all open source and
    built by the community.
  </p>
  <p>
    Not all themes that are available in our hosted offering are listed below,
    you can see a list at
    <a href="https://registry.jsonresume.org/themes"
      >https://registry.jsonresume.org/themes</a
    >
  </p>
  <p>
    Preview them by just editing the query string
    <a href="https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis?theme=flat"
      >https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis?theme=flat</a
    >
  </p>
  <div class="row">
    {% for theme in site.data.themes %}
    <div class="col-sm-4 col-md-3">
      <div class="theme">
        <div class="row">
          <div class="col-sm-12 col-xs-6">
            <a
              href="https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis?theme={{ theme.slug }}"
            >
              <img
                style="height: 129px;"
                src="/img/themes/{{ theme.slug }}.jpeg"
              />
            </a>
          </div>
          <div class="col-sm-12 col-xs-6 meta">
            <div class="name">{{ theme.name }}</div>
            <div class="author">
              by <a href="{{theme.link}}" target="_blank">{{ theme.author }}</a>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="row">
          <div class="col-sm-12">
            <a
              href="https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis?theme={{ theme.slug }}"
              class="btn"
              >Preview theme</a
            >
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    {% endfor %}
  </div>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="clear: both;"></div>

    <h2>Want to develop your own?</h2>
    <p>
      Check out an example boilerplate theme ->
      <a href="https://github.com/jsonresume/jsonresume-theme-boilerplate"
        >https://github.com/jsonresume/jsonresume-theme-boilerplate</a
      >.
      <br />
      <br />
      Here is an example of a more well done and modern theme ->
      <a href="https://github.com/davcd/jsonresume-theme-actual"
        >https://github.com/davcd/jsonresume-theme-actual</a
      >.
      <br />
      <br />
      For an even better theme development environment, try this ->
      <a href="https://github.com/kelyvin/jsonresume-theme-caffeine"
        >https://github.com/kelyvin/jsonresume-theme-caffeine</a
      >.
      <br />
      <br />
      In short, if you want to add a theme to the official list, you need to
      publish an NPM module named `jsonresume-theme-{name}`. That module needs
      to export a function called `render` that takes a `resume.json` and
      returns a plain HTML string.
    </p>
    <h3>Getting started</h3>
    <p>
      If you are using the registry to host your resume, you can easily test
      different themes by appending a query string e.g.
    </p>
    <a href="https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis?theme=flat"
      >https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis?theme=flat</a
    >
    <p>
      Or you can set the default theme for your resume on the registry by using
      the <code>--theme</code> option in the CLI tool e.g.
    </p>
    <code>resume publish --theme flat</code>
  </div>
</div>