Boilerplate LaTeX Project
Run make to compile the document. This uses latexmk which runs LaTeX enough times to get table of contents, bibliographies, cross-references, etc. correct. However, it's error messages aren't the best, so if a compilation fails, you can run make errors to compile with pdflatex for more explicit error messages (lol, explicit error messages for a LaTeX document...).
You can then run make view to open your default PDF viewer. If your default PDF viewer is Evince, it will automatically update as you compile.
make clean will clean the auxiliary files, but not the synctex information or the compiled PDF. Use make cleanall to clean all of the auxiliary files.