Prerequisites: Arduino IDE Installed

Libraries

Download

All the libraries you need in one single package

Install ESP Boards

1. In your Arduino IDE, go to File> Preferences and enter the following links into "Additional Board Manager URLs" field:

For ESP8266 Based board

http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

For ESP32 Based board:

https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.json

Note: If you want to have both, you can separate URLs with a comma.

2. Open the Boards Manager. Go to Tools > Board > Boards Manager…

For ESP8266 Based board:

Search for "ESP8266" and press install button for the "ESP8266 by ESP8266 Community":

For ESP32 Based board:

Search for "ESP32" and press install button for the "ESP32 by Espressif Systems":

Install SPIFFS Tool

1. Download the tool:

For ESP8266 Based board:

Go to releases page and click the ESP8266FS-X.zip

For ESP32 Based board:

Go to releases page and click the ESP32FS-1.0.zip

2. Go to the Arduino IDE directory, and open the Tools folder.

3. Unzip the downloaded .zip folder to the Tools folder. You should have a similar folder structure:

For ESP8266 Based board

<home_dir>/Arduino-<version>/tools/ESP8266FS/tool/esp8266fs.jar

For ESP32 Based board:

<home_dir>/Arduino-<version>/tools/ESP32FS/tool/esp32fs.jar

4. Finally, restart your Arduino IDE.

To check if the plugin was successfully installed, open your Arduino IDE. Select your ESP32 board, go to Tools and check that you have the option "ESP8266 Sketch Data Upload" or "ESP32 Sketch Data Upload".