Feature: support repositories and not only gists

[felipecrs]

I would like to be able to use a full repository to host my resume, so I could pin in my profile as usual.

Template:

https://github.com/${username}/resume/resume.json

or, even more directly:

https://github.com/${username}/resume/raw/master/resume.json

In order to not break anything, I suggest to implement a redundancy:

Check if a Gist is found, if yes use it, otherwise fallback to the repository.

[thomasdavis]

Just had a look at how hard it might be to implement.

Seems quite easy, I will have a play around at some point.

[cybairfly]

My first thought when deploying this. Would be very welcome.

[thomasdavis]

@felipecrs @cybairfly I've got this feature working at https://registry.jsonresume.org/repo/thomasdavis as a prototype.

I kinda agree in retrospect it would actually be a better solution. It would promote people to add extra tooling around their resumes.

The only problem is that Github aggressively caches the url end point https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thomasdavis/resume/master/resume.json that can't be cache busted with query strings.

It's on a 5 minute timer, which kinda sucks... gist I can cache bust in seconds so it feels like you work on it in real time.

Any ideas?

p.s. only took me two years of covid to do this ahaha

[felipecrs]

Does https://github.com/thomasdavis/resume/raw/master/resume.json help?

[thomasdavis]

It just redirects to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thomasdavis/resume/master/resume.json so it's what get's loaded.

[felipecrs]

Got it. The only way I can find is something like this:

$ revision=$(git ls-remote https://github.com/thomasdavis/resume HEAD | awk '{ print $1 }')

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thomasdavis/resume/${revision}/resume.json

[thomasdavis]

Yeah great job, makes sense, will try it. (Will obviously be slower but the gist approach is slow too anyway)

[thomasdavis]

Can write some instructions for a Github action that makes it instant or something. (Currently copying your README approach, could build something similar)

[cybairfly]

Great to hear that it will be possible. No idea how to achieve that but I guess Felipe's idea will work.

[jona-sassenhagen]

This would be a nice feature.

[thomasdavis]

@felipecrs @cybairfly @jona-sassenhagen

Don't know why it has taken me this long to think of an easy way but here it is -> https://github.com/thomasdavis/resume

Just use a Github Action to publish a gist when you ever want (in my case, every push)

[felipecrs]

That works, thanks for providing the example. However it didn't have to be necessary. :)

I'll understand if you prefer to close this issue with this solution, though.

[thomasdavis]

No worries. I've actually wanted this myself since the project was first created aha