I built a free CV builder in vanilla JS — no frameworks, no backend

I spent the last few months building ForgCV — a free CV and cover letter

builder that runs entirely in the browser.

No React, no Vue, no npm. Pure HTML/CSS/JS.

Why vanilla JS?

• Loads in under 1 second


• Zero dependencies to break


• Works on any device

The hardest part wasn't the tech — it was the PDF generation.

jsPDF works, but getting pixel-perfect output from HTML took weeks of tuning.

The product: forgcv.com

• 6 ATS templates


• Cover letter generator (8 languages)
  


• Country guides (France, Germany, UK, Netherlands...)


• Zero data collected

Happy to answer questions about the architecture.