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.

What began as [Sudar’s] lightweight program to escape the IDE has become ... favorite aspect of the Arduino Makefile is its flexibility to accomodate a richer file structure and painlessly ...

Any time you find a function or structure element confusing, you can consult the documentation. Conveniently, the Arduino IDE comes as a desktop app and as a cloud version, which is accessible ...