# 2 tools to help you create Connectors - The Weekly Wisdom - Edition #3

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**Created:** [May 20, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/2-tools-to-help-you-create-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-3/9084 "2025-05-20T16:51:23Z")\
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### 🎓 Welcome to The Weekly Wisdom

**🗓 Edition #3 - 22 May 2025**  
**🏷 Topic tags - #Connectors #odyssey**  
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Hey all! 👋 Michelle here from the Apollo Education team, where I build courses for Odyssey, our official learning platform.

I’m back for the next edition of a multi-part series to teach you the basics of `Apollo Connectors`: a powerful way to bring existing `REST APIs` into your graph, all through configuration in the schema.

### 💡This week’s learning: 2 tools to help you create Connectors

#### **🛠 Tool #1: IDE support**

Depending on your IDE, we have two options:

- [Apollo’s VS Code extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=apollographql.vscode-apollo)
- [Apollo’s JetBrains plugin](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/20645-apollo-graphql)

Get syntax highlighting, intelligent autocomplete, and important schema information right in your IDE. These extensions are especially helpful when trying out Connectors. Besides the helpful autocomplete for new and unfamiliar syntax like the `@connect` directive, you’ll also get those squiggly red lines to let you know there’s something that needs to be fixed!

#### **🛠 Tool #2: [The Connectors Mapping Playground](https://www.apollographql.com/connectors-mapping-playground)**

This tool helps you craft the selection parameter for `@connect`. Browse common examples, or plug in your own JSON response and start crafting the mapping!

 ![Connectors Mapping Playground](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/apollographql/original/2X/a/a886ea8c062eb24b3033e6dac7595b11edf510bf.jpeg)

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### 🔎 Want to go deeper?

You can see the IDE support in action in the Odyssey tutorial [“GraphQL meets REST with Apollo Connectors” Lesson 5](https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/connectors-intro-rest/05-connect).

Want to dive into using the playground for Connector mappings? 🔗 Check out our tutorial [“Expressions in Connectors: Mapping and Transforms”](https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/connectors-mapping-and-transforms).

**[Take the Course](https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/connectors-mapping-and-transforms)**

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### 💬 Share your thoughts in the thread below ⬇

Have you used any of the tools we’ve shared above? What other tools might be helpful for you as you try out Connectors?

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/2-tools-to-help-you-create-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-3/9084/3 "2025-05-22T21:24:28Z")

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