From the course: GraphQL Essential Training

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IDE and required tools

IDE and required tools

- [Instructor] GraphQL doesn't require anything special outside of the tools you're currently using as a developer, so a good IDE or code editor will do the trick. There are some options with extensions or plugins that will make your experience as a developer smoother working with GraphQL. So for example, in this course I use VS Code with a GraphQL extension that provides some nifty tools when working with this framework. This is personally what I use, too. So for example, if you want to add the extension that I'm using, all you have to do is to click on the extensions inside of VS Code, look for GraphQL, and this is the one that I use, but there's quite a few here, so there's this one, too, and a few others here. So if you're using Apollo with GraphQL, you can also install this one, but I usually install one and see how it works and if I get everything that I need within that very first extension, then I keep going with this one. Otherwise, I look for other things that can provide…

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