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# Directory structure
GitBook uses a very simple and obvious directory sttructure:
```
.
├── book.json
├── README.md
├── SUMMARY.md
├── chapter-1/
| ├── README.md
| └── something.md
└── chapter-2/
├── README.md
└── something.md
```
An overview of what each of these does:
| File | Description |
| -------- | ----------- |
| `book.json` | Stores [configuration](config.md) data (__optional__) |
| `README.md` | Preface / Introduction for your book (**required**) |
| `SUMMARY.md` | Table of Contents |
### Static files and Images
A static file is a file that is not listed in the `SUMMARY.md`. All static files, not [ignored](#ignore), are copied to the output.
### Ignoring files & folders {#ignore}
GitBook will read the `.gitignore`, `.bookignore` and `.ignore` files to get a list of files and folders to skip.
The format inside those files, follows the same convention as `.gitignore`:
```
# This is a comment
# Ignore the file test.md
test.md
# Ignore everything in the directory "bin"
bin/*
```
### Project documentation / Sub-directory
For project documentaiton, it sometimes better to use a diretcory (like `docs/`) to store the prject's documentation. You can use a `.gitbook` file to indicate to GitBook in which folder the book is stored:
```
.
├── .gitbook
└── docs/
├── README.md
└── SUMMARY.md
```
With `.gitbook` containing:
```
./docs/
```
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