Frontend Developer resume skills. The words recruiters search for.
The 17 skills and tools that come up in frontend developer job posts, sorted by type, and how to put them in bullets a recruiter believes.
By Nazir Elmurodov, Founder, LaunchCV · Updated
/ The list
Keywords by type. Use only the ones that are true for you.
Hard skills · 11
- React (used in Leah's sample resume)
- TypeScript (used in Leah's sample resume)
- JavaScript (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Next.js (used in Leah's sample resume)
- HTML (used in Leah's sample resume)
- CSS (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Responsive design (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Web accessibility (used in Leah's sample resume)
- WCAG (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Core Web Vitals (used in Leah's sample resume)
- REST APIs (used in Leah's sample resume)
Tools & software · 6
- Jest (used in Leah's sample resume)
- React Testing Library (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Playwright (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Storybook (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Git (used in Leah's sample resume)
- Figma (used in Leah's sample resume)
17 of 17 appear in Leah's sample resume. See where
/ How to use them
Put keywords in bullets, not just in a skills list.
A skills list tells the software you have a skill. A bullet shows a recruiter what you did with it.
React, TypeScript, REST APIs
Weak: Skills: React, TypeScript, REST APIs
Strong: Build customer-facing features in React and TypeScript on top of REST APIs for a budgeting app used by 400,000 people a month
Next.js, Core Web Vitals
Weak: Skills: Next.js, Core Web Vitals
Strong: Moved the marketing site and account pages to Next.js with server rendering, improving Core Web Vitals; mobile Largest Contentful Paint fell from 4.1s to 1.8s
WCAG
Weak: Skills: WCAG
Strong: Led an accessibility pass against WCAG 2.1 AA, fixing 120+ issues found with axe and screen reader testing in NVDA and VoiceOver
Playwright, Storybook
Weak: Skills: Playwright, Storybook
Strong: Built a shared component library in Storybook now used by 4 product teams, with Playwright end-to-end tests running on every pull request
Strong bullets come from Leah's sample resume and our frontend developer bullet examples. Names and figures are illustrative.
/ Use them honestly
Keywords get you found. Proof gets you hired.
Mirror the job post's wording for skills you really have. If a frontend developer post asks for React and you've used it, say React, in the post's spelling, and show where.
Mirror the job post's wording
If a frontend developer post says "TypeScript", write "TypeScript", not a near-synonym — as long as it's accurate. Recruiters search for the post's exact term.
Only claim what you can back up
Expect to be asked about every term you list. If you couldn't spend two minutes on React — what you did and what changed — leave it out.
Show it in a bullet
A skills list says you know REST APIs. A bullet like the one under Frontend Developer in the example above shows what you did with it.
No stuffing, no hidden text
Repeating a word or hiding keywords in white text doesn't make you a better match. A person reads the resume in the end.
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/ Questions
Frontend Developer keywords, answered.
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How many keywords should a frontend developer resume have?
There's no magic number. Leah's sample resume uses all 17 terms on this page, because each one fit that job. Cover what your post asks for that you can back up, each where it fits; repeating a keyword doesn't help.
Should I copy keywords exactly from the job post?
Use the post's wording for skills you really have. If a frontend developer post says "React", write "React" rather than a synonym, so a recruiter searching for that term finds you. Don't add skills you don't have just because the post lists them.
Where should keywords go on my resume?
In your summary, a short skills section and, above all, the bullets under each job, where you show what you did with the skill. In Leah's sample, React, TypeScript and Web accessibility are in the summary and REST APIs shows up in a bullet under Frontend Developer. Plain text in the body of the page is easiest for applicant tracking systems to read.
Which tools should I list on a frontend developer resume?
The ones you've used and the post mentions. Common ones in frontend developer posts include Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Storybook and Git. Name the tool in the bullet where you used it, not only in the skills list.
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