Hugo site isn't starting locally - github-pages

Question

I'm currently trying to build a Hugo site locally, and no content is showing. I'd love more trouble-shooting steps or anything that can help me do a clean rebuild so I don't have to transfer all my posts over to a Google site.
I've tried re-instantiating the site, rebuilding it with hugo, starting the server with hugo server and hugo server -D, but I'm only getting a blank screen.
I have pages that aren't drafts, so something should definitely be showing. It's possible the public or index folder are goofed, but I'm not sure.
hugo version: Hugo Static Site Generator v0.48/extended darwin/amd64
go version: go version go1.11.2 darwin/amd64
config.toml:
baseURL = ""
languageCode = "en-us"
title = ""
theme = "ananke"
[menu]
[[menu.main]]
identifier = "Posts"
name = "Posts"
pre = "<i class='fa fa-road'></i>"
url = "/posts/"
weight = -100
[params]
featured_image = "images/space-cat-wallpaper.jpg"
twitter = ""
When building the pages with hugo:
| EN
+------------------+----+
Pages | 72
Paginator pages | 0
Non-page files | 0
Static files | 21
Processed images | 0
Aliases | 1
Sitemaps | 1
Cleaned | 0
Total in 88 ms
When starting the local instance with hugo server -D:
| EN
+------------------+-----+
Pages | 117
Paginator pages | 5
Non-page files | 0
Static files | 21
Processed images | 0
Aliases | 1
Sitemaps | 1
Cleaned | 0
Total in 120 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/jschalz/Desktop/hugo-jschalz.github.io-2/{content,data,layouts,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in /Users/jschalz/Desktop/hugo-jschalz.github.io-2/config.toml
Serving pages from memory
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop
After running hugo -v --debug -D I get the following warnings and then a LOT of debug noise:
WARN 2019/06/16 16:33:21 No translation bundle found for default language "en"
WARN 2019/06/16 16:33:21 Translation func for language en not found, use default.
WARN 2019/06/16 16:33:21 i18n not initialized, check that you have language file (in i18n) that matches the site language or the default language.
Navigating to localhost:1313 gives me a blank screen.

Answer 1

First hugo -v --debug -D could tell you more
Second, to be really sure something is generated, try:
hugo server --renderToDisk --gc --cleanDestinationDir
Check that files are created (as opposed to be served in memory)
Note: I always prefer adding in my config.toml
builddrafts = true
It is useful when starting a project, to be sure everything is generated.
The OP ladygremlin confirms in the comments:
I think the builddrafts = true in the config.toml fixed it!
I also upgraded to the newest version of hugo.