Building a Config-Driven Resume Template Engine in React
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When I started building a resume builder, I did what most developers do: I created one React component per template. TemplateModern.tsx, TemplateClassic.tsx, TemplateMinimal.tsx. Each one was a slightly tweaked copy of the last. By template five, the pattern was already painful. A bug fix in the header meant five identical changes. A new section type meant touching every component. Worse, adding a new template required duplicating hundreds of lines of JSX just to change some colors and a font.