New registry infrastructure

[thomasdavis]

The old registry server has been to hard to manage and pay for.

We will move the system to a serverless approach which loads a users resume via a public gist named resume.json.

When a request is made to registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis it will;

1. Look up the users gists via the api (If we don't yet know the location of their resume.json gist)
2. Store the url to the gist in a datastore
3. Render the resume on a function by hitting the new serverless theme renderer

• Still need to figure out a convention for users to define which theme they would like rendered by default (property in resume.json, in the gist file extension, in the gist description)

Example gist api response: https://api.github.com/users/thomasdavis/gists

All old registry members should have got an email containing their resume backup, if not, let me know.

[thomasdavis]

So registry is up now

https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis

By creating a resume.json on your github account, you can access it by entering your github username https://registry.jsonresume.org/{github_username}

You can set theme by adding a json blob to your gist description { "theme": "elegant"}

Here is my resume.json -> https://gist.github.com/thomasdavis/c9dcfa1b37dec07fb2ee7f36d7278105

[thomasdavis]

• Need to store url to gist for github api rates
• Need a way to cache bust theme if gist is cached
• Need speed improvements
• Need better errors
• Need to fix documentation
• Deprecating publishing from cli tool

[thomasdavis]

New serverless code bases can be found

https://github.com/jsonresume/registry-functions
https://github.com/jsonresume/theme-functions

All ideas are appreciated!

[adityatandon007]

@thomasdavis thanks man. You did it. I needed this badly and since I already have a backup it is easy to make a gist and voila it is working now. 👍 for the theme integration through gist description.

[thomasdavis]

Website hosting instructions updated -> https://jsonresume.org/getting-started/

@adityatandon007 Thanks!

[thomasdavis]

I've changed the theme selection to be inside the resume.json instead.

Simply add { "meta": { "theme": "elegant" } } as a top level property of your resume.json

The meta property was added to the official schema to support things like this.

@adityatandon007 you will want to update yours

[thomasdavis]

I need to merge theme and registry server into one for speed purposes.

[adityasatalkar]

Thank you so much for posting this. @thomasdavis could you also update the README as to how to get it to work locally? I have uploaded my resume.json as a gist and saw it work at https://registry.jsonresume.org/ars75

[jorgeas80]

Works perfect for me. Thanks! https://registry.jsonresume.org/jorgeas80

[dalevross]

All ideas are appreciated!

@thomasdavis
Since a gist is a collection of files, I made an assumption that broke my resume until I realized what it was. I cloned my gist and added the html output just to have it easily referenced. The current code expects a gist named resume.json having a single file named resume.json. What are your thoughts on finding the file with name resume.json within that gist?

If that is not possible, a cleaner error message would be cool for people who run into this. Let me know if you need the current error message. I'd love to contribute if you approve the change.

[thomasdavis]

@dalevross Yep I should fix that, hopefully can get to it tonight.