React Developer Resume
Skills & ATS Keywords

Target 32 to 48 concrete React-ecosystem skills, split into 7 to 8 named rows. Under 24 reads thin for someone claiming a React specialty; past 52 starts to look like a sweep of every npm package you skimmed. Every chip on the list has to land in at least one bullet as proof, or it gets cut.

Park it right under the Profile Summary and ahead of Work Experience. Recruiters read top-down and a few parsers weight position when matching terms. Burying the row at the bottom keeps the React, Next.js, and TypeScript signals out of the slot the screen is scanning. Hold the section to 7 to 8 categorized rows (React, State, Data Fetching, Styling, TypeScript, Testing, Performance, A11y), not a comma-soup paragraph.

Read the JD twice and write down the 10 to 15 React tools, libraries, and patterns it names. Lay that list next to your Skills row and your bullets. Wherever the posting hits a React keyword that is true for you but missing from the page, add it: once in the Skills row, once in a bullet that proves it. Finish by running the file through the ATS Checker so you know the parser recognises every entry.

A Front-End Developer resume signals breadth across the front-end surface: framework choice, styling system, accessibility, build tooling, with React shown as one option among Vue, Svelte, or vanilla. A React Developer resume signals depth inside the React ecosystem only. Lead with React 18 or 19 features (Suspense, Server Components, useOptimistic, transitions), Next.js App Router or Remix work, React state-management depth (Redux Toolkit + RTK Query, TanStack Query, Zustand), and React Testing Library + Vitest. If your resume reads like a survey of every front-end framework, recruiters screening for a React specialist will pass you over.

If you have shipped anything against Next.js 13 or later, yes, and name it explicitly: App Router, Server Components, Server Actions, route handlers. In 2026, roughly half of US React postings reference the App Router by name. If your last React role was Pages Router or CRA only, that is fine, but say so with a migration bullet (Pages to App, CRA to Vite) so recruiters can place your timeline.

Drop it. React Native belongs on a React Developer resume only when the JD asks for mobile, hybrid, or Expo work, or when you genuinely shipped a Native app in your last two roles. Listing React Native against a web-only Next.js role reads as filler and pushes web-specific keywords (App Router, Suspense, RSC) lower on the page, which is exactly where the recruiter is looking.

Four numbers carry the most signal on a React resume: bundle-size cut (in KB or percent), TTI or INP improvement (with the before and after values), components owned or shipped (range, not a single hero number), and migration scope (routes converted, squads touched, weeks of runway). A bullet that names the React pattern (Suspense, Server Components, RTK Query), the metric, and the scope clears both the parser and the recruiter scan. Vague “improved performance” lines do neither.