Introduction

1) What is ESP8266 and NodeMCU?

Official websites

• Official NodeMCU web page - a brief introduction to NodeMCU capabilities
• Official NodeMCU Documentation - main documentation reference for using NodeMCU

Basic information

• Article on the Wikipedia

Comparison of NodeMCU development boards for ESP8266

• Comparison of different NodeMCU modules
• Review of All NodeMCU modules (YouTube) - when you want to decide which board to buy

Wiki sites

• * ESP8266 Github Wiki
• * ESP8266 community Wiki

FAQ's

• ESP8266 community FAQ

Forums

• ESP8266 Community Forum - NodeMCU

Third party technical information

• nurdspace: ESP8266

About successor - ESP32

• Everything about ESP32
• Review 1 (Polish)
• Review 2 (Polish)

2) Choose your IDE

• Arduino IDE - useful for developing NodeMCU with C programming language

  • Brief tutorial on using Arduino IDE for NodeMCU I believe it's worth pointing out that developing NodeMCU using C programming language has a lot of advantages. For example, the execution is faster and capable of conserving RAM. On the other hand, I consider developing in Lua programming language simpler.

• ESPlorer - good to begin with

  • Brief Tutorial on starting with ESPlorer
  • An example of code upload
  • Polish tutorial

last updated: 2017-01-23