How to generate PDF resume from latex on github page?

Saturday. February 16, 2019 - 2 mins

Everyone learn new stuff daily, achieve something new every day, builds new innovative projects now and then and definitely wants to mention them in their resume.

But with current tools, the process of updating resume is too time-consuming and most of us avoid until we are looking for a new job 😉. And this experience is even worse for those who maintain resume in latex. Either setup tex environment locally (3gb MacTex for Mac) or use third party online sites.

I am also the one who prefers latex resume. So for every single small change, I have to either rely on online sites like Sharelatex. Update Tex file there, download code and generated pdf and then upload back to my GitHub page repo. Another option for me was to set up MacTex locally. But having 128GB Mac, I can’t manage to devote 3gb to this.

So to make this process seamless, I have developed BotLatexx. With this no extra work needs to be done in order to maintain an updated copy of your resume on GitHub pages, just make changes on Tex file locally and push it to GitHub repo. BotLatexx will take care of everything for you.

Watch the demo on Youtube, how I updated app downloads count to 40k+ in my resume which is hosted on GitHub pages in less than a minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5-_v2ttiU

How it works

In simple words, it builds your latex project on the cloud and returns your generated PDF.

Here is the user flow:

You edit your Tex file locally.
Push your code to GitHub repo.
Check your resume URL, it will consist of your changes. It’s MAGIC, it’s MAGIC

Behind the scenes

Here is what BotLatexx will do for you:

As soon as you push code to GitHub, BotLatexx will clone it.
Configure your fonts and .cls files to the build system.
Build your Latex project.
Push back generated PDF file to your repo.

Learnings

How to handle GitHub webhooks
Ignore bogus call to the handler from fake webhooks
Schedule task on the server
Run tasks in parallel
Write scripts to perform git commands
Auto retry on failure
etc etc

Watch the demo on Youtube, how I updated app download count to 40k+ in my resume which is hosted on GitHub pages in less than a minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5-_v2ttiU

Conclusion

“Performing same steps again and again, is the work of bots, let’s not snact work from them 😜.”

Vishwesh Jainkuniya

Learner

How to generate PDF resume from latex on github page?

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