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.

Now go to the installation process. Arduino IDE software has been successfully installed on your PC. Now you have to extract and install this file. Follow the below steps to do this process.

The project, called arduino-cli, is the first time that the official toolchain has departed from the Java-based editor known as the Arduino IDE ... can do things like install and manage libraries.