I have given a step by step guide in this repo as to how I was able to connect ESP8266 Microcontroller to my mobile wifi hotspot, and so can you! I strongly suggest the viewers to go through this ...

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 ...

Arduino LittleFS Upload: Extension for uploading files to the LittleFS file system of Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040, ESP8266 and ESP32 Arduino core devices. ESP Exception Decoder: ESP8266/ESP32 exception ...

Arduino offers you a broad ecosystem of cheap hardware with a beginner-friendly IDE, helped by forum posts explaining every single problem that you could and will stumble upon.