Structure
Nothing clever here 
. Layouts, data files, and includes are all placed in their default locations. Stylesheets and scripts in assets, and a few development related files in the project’s root directory.
minimal-mistakes
├── _data # data files for customizing the theme
| ├── navigations.yml # main navigation links
| └── ui-text.yml # text used throughout the theme's UI
├── _includes
| ├── analytics-providers # snippets for analytics (Google and custom)
| ├── comments-providers # snippets for comments (Disqus, Facebook, Google+, and custom)
| ├── footer # custom snippets to add to site footer
| ├── head # custom snippets to add to site head
| ├── base_path # site.url + site.baseurl shortcut
| ├── feature_row # feature row helper
| ├── gallery # image gallery helper
| ├── group-by-array # group by array helper for archives
| ├── nav_list # navigation list helper
| ├── toc # table of contents helper
| └── ...
├── _layouts
| ├── archive-taxonomy.html # tag/category archive for Jekyll Archives plugin
| ├── archive.html # archive listing documents in an array
| ├── compress.html # compresses HTML in pure Liquid
| ├── default.html # base for all other layouts
| ├── single.html # single document (post/page/etc)
| └── splash.html # splash page
├── assets
| ├── _scss # stylesheet source files
| | ├── vendor # vendor SCSS partials
| | ├── main.scss # imports all SCSS partials
| | └── ... # theme SCSS partials
| ├── css
| | └── main.css # optimized stylesheet loaded in <head>
| ├── fonts
| | └── fontawesome-webfont # Font Awesome webfonts
| ├── js
| | ├── plugins # jQuery plugins
| | ├── vendor # vendor scripts
| | ├── _main.js # plugin settings and other scripts to load after jQuery
| | └── main.min.js # optimized and concatenated script file loaded before </body>
├── images # image assets for posts/pages/collections/etc.
├── _config.yml # site configuration
├── Gemfile # gem file dependencies
├── Gemfile.lock # gem file dependencies
├── index.html # paginated home page showing recent posts
└── package.json # NPM build scripts