Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE.

Both Arduino ... IDE-shaped app that does MicroPython editing and uploads code to your board from a friendly environment. It works over a serial port, and as such, the venerable ESP8266-based ...

such as AVR or ESP8266. The standard Arduino libraries (common for beginner Arduino projects) as well as wide list of contributed libraries can be found within the Arduino IDE itself. In Arduino ...