Finally, this has changed. After many months of coding, the Arduino IDE supports the ESP8266 module. The Arduino IDE support was announced on the ESP8266 community forum.

Note that you could, in theory install in C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware however this has security implications, not to mention the directory often gets blown away when re-installing Arduino ...

Compiles in the Arduino IDE for the ESP8266 This Sketch will connect your ESP8266 to your WIFI-AP and to a MQTT-Server. It'll loop through all DS18B20 temperature sensors connected to GPIO2 and ...

That’s great for users relying on the Arduino IDE, but some prefer working with PlatformIO, and there’s currently an open issue on PlatformIO about support for Arduino ESP32 Core v3.0.0 which may ...

Seeed Studio XIAO 7.5″ ePaper panel supports ESPHome firmware, Arduino programming Seeed Studio XIAO 7.5″ ePaper Panel interfaces an XIAO ESP32-C3 USB-C board and mainly targets the Smart Home market ...