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. Finall… ...

That is quite common for boards like the esp8266 that require a button push or special programming mode. Next, compile and upload after resetting your esp8266 board while pressing the program button.

Programming: There’s a ROM for That There’s a few things to take note of when programming the ESP8266. One is that there are a bunch of functions that are built into the ROM you can leverage.