For examples, the Arduino core for ESP8266 comes with plenty of interesting sketches to fiddle with! Note: As described earlier, when trying to program the ESP-01 as instructed here, you have to ...

you can write code for the ESP module, connect the serial pins, and hit the program button. The basic functions of the Arduino IDE – pinMode, digitalRead, digitalWrite, and analogRead – are ...

There’s no interaction with the remote servers when operating the user interface so there is no need for an external Internet connection. The system supports Arduino and ESP controllers.