Transforming my Resume into an Interactive Terminal Business Card using NPM 🚀

Source: Dev.to

💡 The Inspiration

The project was originally inspired by anmol098/npx_card. It turned the networking experience into something playful and technical at the same time. I’m not sure if he came up with the original idea, but it’s brilliant nonetheless.

🛠️ How to use

To view the card, you don’t need to install anything permanently. As long as you have Node.js installed, just run:

npx ebdonato

🏗️ What’s under the hood?

To build card-tui, I used (well, the AI used) some classic Node.js CLI libraries:

• Inquirer.js – creates the interactive menu.
• Boxen – adds a sleek border around the information.
• Chalk – adds color to the terminal and highlights links and job titles.
• Marked – renders Markdown content.
• Open – triggers and opens links in the user’s default browser.

🚀 Why do this?

Beyond being a creative way to introduce yourself, developing an NPM package focused on a TUI (Terminal User Interface) helps you understand:

• Package publishing and versioning on the NPM registry.
• Handling input and output streams in Node.js.
• Design focused on constraints (the terminal is limited, which forces simplicity).

The code is open‑source on my GitHub for anyone who wants to use it as a template for their own: ebdonato/card-tui.