I am trying to use jekyll, and it does not generate the whole directory structure; what's wrong?

Question

This is what I have done:

gem install jekyll bundler
jekyll new staticwebsite
cd staticwebsite
jekyll build

What I get is this:

It is not clear to me what is missing.

Answer 1

Since Jekyll 3.2.0 gem based themes are the default, this is why you are not seeing all the typical structure that used to be before them:

Our flagship feature for this release has been themes. Themes?!, you say? Yes, proper, versionable, releasable, first-class themes. We’re pretty stoked about it and we hope you like building and using them. For now, it only supports layouts, includes, and sass, but we have plans to include static assets like images and CSS/JS in a future release.

That basically means that by default you won't have these typical directories:

/assets
/_layouts
/_includes
/_sass

But Jekyll will use the ones in each theme, unless you overwrite them or copy to your jekyll instance to modify them.

Answer 2

When you check your _config file you will see that

theme: minima

and that mean your jekyll use minima gem and to locate the file of minima theme use the command bundle show minima

to get the path of minima and open the file location to see the files that will use in your jekyll site

For more information check Jekyll Themes