Front end is the most measurable discipline in software, and most front end developer resumes read like the least measurable. Load times, Lighthouse scores, conversion lifts, bundle sizes: the numbers are sitting in your analytics dashboard, yet the average resume says "built responsive user interfaces using React" and stops there.

This page shows you a complete front end developer resume example, then walks through why each section works, how to adapt it for a Vue or Angular role, which framework keywords recruiter filters actually scan for, and how to write the performance and accessibility bullets that separate a mid-level candidate from a junior one.

Recruiters screening front end roles see the same failures over and over, and they are worth naming before you look at the example, because the example is built to avoid every one of them.

The fix for all five is the same discipline: lead with your primary framework, group your skills so they can be read in three seconds, and attach a number to every bullet where a number honestly exists.

React is the safe default for the example because it dominates front end job postings in the US market by a wide margin. If a posting just says "front end developer" with no framework named, the odds are it is a React shop. The example below shows a mid-level developer who leads with the stack, quantifies performance work, and makes design collaboration visible.

The summary in the example above does three things in three lines: names the primary stack (React and TypeScript), states years of experience, and lands one quantified win. That is the whole job of a summary. Recruiters use it to confirm they are looking at the right kind of candidate, so front-load the exact terms from the posting. If you are unsure how to compress your experience that tightly, the patterns in how to write a professional summary apply directly here.

Notice the shape of the bullets: action, technology, measurable result. "Cut Largest Contentful Paint" beats "improved performance" because it proves you know which metric matters and that you tracked it. The bullets also vary in subject. Some are performance, some are accessibility, some are collaboration and delivery. A run of six bullets that all say "built X component" tells a hiring manager you see yourself as a ticket-closer, not an engineer.

The skills are grouped, not dumped. Core web fundamentals sit in one line, the React ecosystem in another, tooling and testing in a third. Grouping does two jobs at once: the ATS still finds every keyword as an exact string, and the human reader gets an instant picture of your depth. Ten to fifteen well-chosen skills beat forty. If a technology would not survive a follow-up interview question, it does not belong on the page.

The structure of the example does not change for a Vue or Angular role. The keywords do, and so does the story you tell around them, because the three frameworks live in different corners of the job market.

Angular clusters in enterprise, finance, government, and large agencies. Postings that ask for Angular almost always ask for TypeScript alongside it, and often RxJS. For an Angular-focused resume, put TypeScript in your summary, not just your skills list, and name the ecosystem pieces you actually used: RxJS, NgRx or another state library, Angular Material, and Jasmine or Karma for testing. Enterprise hiring managers also respond to scale signals, so bullets about large codebases, module architecture, and upgrade migrations (say, Angular version upgrades across a shared codebase) carry more weight here than in a startup application.

Vue shows up most in startups, agencies, and companies that adopted it for developer speed. Vue postings are rarer, which cuts both ways: fewer roles, but far fewer credible candidates per role. Name your Vue version and API style explicitly, because it matters to the team screening you. "Vue 3 with the Composition API" and "Pinia" tell a Vue shop you are current; "Vue 2 and Vuex" without anything newer suggests you are not. Nuxt experience is worth its own mention if you have it, the same way Next.js is for React candidates.

If you work across frameworks, do not present yourself as a three-framework generalist on a single resume. Keep one base resume per target and lead each with the framework the role wants. Maintaining those versions without letting them drift apart is exactly the problem a base resume with tailored variants solves.

ATS filters and recruiter searches match strings, not concepts. A recruiter searching "React" will find your resume whether you wrote "React" or "React.js", because most modern systems handle that variant, but they will not infer React from "modern JavaScript frameworks." Write the exact names. The table below shows how the keyword clusters differ by framework focus, so you can build the skills section that matches the roles you are targeting.

Two rules make this table useful rather than a stuffing guide. First, only list what you can defend in an interview; a keyword you cannot back up costs you the offer at a later, more expensive stage. Second, mirror the posting's phrasing. If the job says "Vue.js," write "Vue.js" at least once even if you prefer "Vue 3." Exact matches are cheap insurance. For the broader mechanics of matching, see ATS resume keywords: stop guessing and start matching.

Beyond frameworks, nearly every front end posting also screens for a fundamentals layer: JavaScript (often "ES6+"), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, REST APIs, and Git. TypeScript in particular has moved from nice-to-have to expected for mid-level roles. If you write it daily, it belongs in your summary and your title line, not just the skills block.

Performance and accessibility are the two topics where a front end resume can prove seniority without a senior title. Both have named, googleable standards, which means a specific bullet is instantly credible and a vague one is instantly suspect.

The strongest performance bullets follow one pattern: which metric moved, by how much, and what you did to move it. Core Web Vitals give you the vocabulary. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) for load speed, Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) for visual stability, Interaction to Next Paint (INP) for responsiveness. Mechanisms worth naming include code splitting, lazy loading, image optimization, memoization, reducing bundle size, and moving rendering to the server with Next.js or Nuxt.

Compare "optimized application performance" with "reduced initial bundle size through route-based code splitting and cut LCP on the checkout page, measured in Lighthouse." The second is longer, and every extra word is doing work: it proves you know the tooling, the metric, and the business-critical page. Pull your real numbers from Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, or your monitoring tool before you write these bullets. If you genuinely never measured, say what you did mechanically ("lazy-loaded below-the-fold images across the product catalog") rather than inventing a percentage. A fabricated metric on a resume is worse than none, because interviewers ask how you measured it.

"Passionate about accessibility" is a sentiment. "Brought the design system's form components to WCAG 2.1 AA, verified with axe and manual screen reader testing" is evidence. The keywords that carry weight here are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) with a version and level, ARIA, semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and the tools you tested with (axe, Lighthouse's accessibility audit, VoiceOver or NVDA). Accessibility requirements are increasingly written into contracts and legislation, so teams that care about it screen for it explicitly, and teams that do not are still impressed by it.

One well-evidenced a11y bullet per role is enough. It signals craft and reduces risk in the hiring manager's mind, which is a rare combination for a single resume line.

Front end sits between design and engineering, and hiring managers screen for people who handle that seam well. The mistake is writing it as a soft skill ("strong collaboration with designers"). Write it as work product instead. Collaboration leaves artifacts: design systems, component libraries, Storybook documentation, Figma handoff processes, and shipped features that survived design review.

Personal projects can carry this signal too if your day job does not. A side project with a documented component library and a live URL demonstrates the same skills; the guide on listing coding projects on a resume covers how to frame them, and where to put your GitHub link so reviewers actually click it.

You do not need to rebuild your resume from scratch to apply any of this. Roleframe's free resume editor imports your existing resume as a PDF and converts it into editable blocks, with your roles, dates, and bullets landing in the right places. The import runs a full resume analysis on its own, so the first thing you see is a scored document with its weak sections named: the vague bullets, the missing metrics, the skills soup.

From there you edit in a document-grade editor rather than a rigid form. You can drag your skills section above your experience for a framework-heavy posting, split skills into the grouped lines shown in the example, and export a clean, ATS-friendly PDF that matches the editor exactly. The editor itself is free to use with no account and no watermark on the download; a free account keeps your draft permanently and includes a starter credit balance to try the AI features.

The gap between "developed components using React" and a bullet with a metric and a mechanism is mostly a writing problem, and it is the specific problem Remi, Roleframe's career copilot, exists for. Paste a job posting against a copy of your resume and you get a fit report: an ATS score, the exact keywords the posting asks for that your resume is missing (say, "TypeScript" and "Next.js" absent from a resume applying to a Next.js shop), and a prioritized plan of what to change.

Then you make the edits with Remi working on the document beside you. Ask it to rewrite a bullet and it proposes a version grounded in the job description and the gaps the report named, shown as a word-by-word diff you accept or discard. Nothing changes without your approval, which matters more in engineering hiring than anywhere else: an interviewer will ask you exactly how you cut that LCP number, and you need the words on the page to be yours. Roleframe deliberately does not write the resume for you; it shows you what to change and helps you change it, one approved edit at a time.