The hosted site on Netlify - ‘projects’ is 404
My repo
The section page I’m trying to create works on localhost but not remotely. The sub-pages do work e.g. at /project/nc-express-rest-api
I tried adding a blank _index.md to the project folder, but that seems to have no effect. Unfortunately I’m having a bit of trouble understanding how Hugo puts things together 
themes/hugo-theme-basic/layouts/section/project.html is empty.
Fix with:
cp layouts/_default/list.html layouts/project/
See:
https://gohugo.io/templates/lookup-order/#examples-layout-lookup-for-section-pages
Fixed, thankyou!
The existence of the layouts/project folder was preventing the lookup of _default/list.html?
No.
The existence of themes/hugo-theme-basic/layouts/section/project.html was preventing the lookup of _default/list.html.