  In several preceding studies, the explicitly covariant formulation of light
front dynamics was developed and applied to many observables. In the present
study we show how in this approach the renormalization procedure for the first
radiative correction can be carried out in a standard way, after separating out
the contributions depending on the orientation of the light-front plane. We
calculate the renormalized QED vertices $\gamma e^-\to e^-$ and $e^+e^-\to
\gamma $ and the electron self-energy and recover, in a straightforward way,
the well known analytical results obtained in the Feynman approach.
