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.

Getting it installed is as easy as adding the URL to the Arduino IDE’s Boards Manager interface ... Just like the ESP8266’s popularity exploded when it was added to the Arduino IDE, we ...

If you're manually installing a library from a ZIP file, without using the Add .ZIP Library option in the IDE's Library ...