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 ...

Upload program to ESP8266 with Arduino IDE STEP1: Installation of Arduino IDE First, the latest version of the Arduino IDE needs to be downloaded and installed from here.

Upload program to ESP8266 with Arduino IDE STEP1: Installation of Arduino IDE First, the latest version of the Arduino IDE needs to be downloaded and installed from here.

For beginners learning to program Arduinos, a web-based, fully networked developer environment called Codebender could drastically reduce the learning curve.