# new to radicle & looking at best practices help..

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/new-to-radicle-looking-at-best-practices-help/30371
**Category:** radicle
**Tags:** trellis
**Created:** 2026-06-07T10:32:15Z
**Posts:** 5

## Post 1 by @tziady — 2026-06-07T10:32:15Z

So, I just purchased Radicle and hope to start using it in my work flow.

So far it looks amazing; I just have some functional / best practice questions.

I figure radicle essentially replaces the site folder in a trellis new [domain.com](http://domain.com)

domain-folder

```
|__ radicle (in place of site)
 |__ trellis
```

Now currently, both radicle and trellis are different repos. 2 separate private repos.

Should they be one repo?

And am I setting this up the best way?

Should the repo be instead for everything under domain-folder?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,  
T

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## Post 2 by @ben — 2026-06-07T13:11:18Z

Hey @tziady, thanks so much for purchasing Radicle!

For Radicle setups the Trellis folder is at the top level project directory in one repo once running the setup script:

[https://github.com/roots/radicle/blob/main/docs/setup/local-development.md#trellis](https://github.com/roots/radicle/blob/main/docs/setup/local-development.md#trellis)

Regular Bedrock/Trellis setups will eventually transition to this structure as well, but Trellis would still work if you prefer to keep the folder outside the site level

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## Post 3 by @tziady — 2026-06-07T13:36:40Z

For this first install I created separate repos and it’s working well.  
But having it all run under one repo feels like the right way to go.

I must have over looked the trellis setup script part since I already have trellis-cli installed and just ran a trellis new…

T

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## Post 4 by @ben — 2026-06-07T19:13:58Z

Take a look at what the setup script does — “trellis new” is not compatible with Radicle out of the box

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## Post 5 by @Tetrahedrax — 2026-06-08T10:20:12Z

> [@tziady](#):
>
> Should they be one repo?

I’ve set them up as one repo with requirements.txt being at the “root” of it. You won’t be touching the Trellis folder much except when you’re manually updating it.