Overview
Frontend development is one of the most accessible paths into tech, which also makes it one of the most competitive. Every junior frontend role gets applications from bootcamp graduates, self taught developers, and computer science students. The resumes that get interviews are the ones with live projects, clean code, and measurable results. Not the ones that just list "HTML, CSS, JavaScript" and hope for the best.
This resume belongs to Marcus Lee, a computer science graduate from the University of Kent. He built three portfolio projects, contributed to an open source library, and completed a four month internship at a digital agency. His resume works because every project is deployed, documented, and described with impact.
What Makes This Resume Work
Projects are live and measurable. Marcus built a weather dashboard using React and the OpenWeather API that receives 200+ monthly visitors. He created a personal portfolio site with a Lighthouse performance score of 98. He also built a task management app with drag and drop functionality using React and Firebase. Each project has a live URL and a GitHub repository link. Hiring managers can click through and see the actual work, which is far more convincing than a bullet point description.
The internship shows professional workflow. During his placement, he built responsive landing pages for three client websites, participated in daily standups with a team of five developers, and submitted code through pull requests that were reviewed before merging. He fixed 25 bugs over the four months and implemented a lazy loading feature that improved one client's page load time by 1.8 seconds. This tells an employer he can work within a team, follow a code review process, and ship real improvements.
Open source contribution stands out. He contributed a accessibility improvement to a popular React component library, fixing keyboard navigation on a dropdown menu. The pull request was merged and is now used by thousands of developers. Open source contributions at the junior level are rare, which makes this a strong differentiator.
Technical skills are well organised. Languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS), frameworks (React, Next.js), styling (Tailwind CSS, Sass), tools (Git, VS Code, Figma), and testing (Jest, React Testing Library). Each category is clearly separated. A recruiter scanning for "React" or "TypeScript" can find them immediately.
Key Takeaways
Deploy your projects and link to them. A live URL proves your project works. A GitHub link proves you wrote the code. Together they are the most powerful evidence a junior frontend developer can present.
Describe your internship in terms of the development workflow: pull requests, code reviews, standups, bug counts, and performance improvements. Employers want to know you can work in a team environment, not just code alone in your room.
Consider contributing to open source. Even a small fix to an existing project shows that you can read other people's code, follow contribution guidelines, and collaborate with strangers. It is a signal that stands out at the junior level.

























































































































































































































































