Frontend developer resume tips
A frontend developer resume is about an interface someone used. Name the screen or the component, the person it was for, and the library you wrote it in. Visual polish you did not implement, and a design file you only viewed, are not the same as the code you shipped.
Cover letter for a frontend developer
What to put first
State the product surface: a logged-in app, a checkout, a settings area, or a public marketing view. The first bullets should be components or flows you owned, including the state or the data you had to handle.
The interaction
Write what the person could do: filter a list, recover from an error, finish a form, or use the screen with a keyboard. "Built UI" does not say which of those you did.
Design as a handoff
Say when a designer provided the screens and what you decided in code: empty states, loading, or a component the design system did not have yet. Do not claim the visual design unless you made it.
The library, tied to a bullet
Name the UI library or the design system only where a bullet shows it. Accessibility work belongs if you did it: labels, focus, or a check you ran, not a slogan.
An example line
Adapt this only where it is true for you. It is a shape for a bullet, not a claim that a particular person did this work.
Owned the filter bar on a logged-in search screen: kept the query in the address so a refresh did not clear it, and matched the states the design system already had.
What to leave off
Leave off component libraries you have not shipped, visual designs you did not make, and a performance number you cannot reproduce. Leave off backend services you only called and did not build, unless you say you called them.
Questions
- Should I include screenshots?
- A link or a still image helps if the work is yours to show. The bullet should stand without it.
- What if I also wrote the API client?
- Say you wrote the client and name the screen it served. Do not expand that into a claim that you owned the service.