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## What else is there?
-- `static/` is where you can keep your static front-end scripts, styles, or images. In other words, your Sass files, JS files, fonts, and SVGs would live here.
+- `assets/` is where you can keep your front-end scripts, styles, or images. In other words, your Sass files, JS files, fonts, and SVGs would live here.
- `views/` contains all of your Twig templates. These pretty much correspond 1 to 1 with the PHP files that respond to the WordPress template hierarchy. At the end of each PHP template, you’ll notice a `Timber::render()` function whose first parameter is the Twig file where that data (or `$context`) will be used. Just an FYI.
- `tests/` ... basically don’t worry about (or remove) this unless you know what it is and want to.
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