Summary
In this chapter, we have learned about the tools and the basics of ESP32 development. ESP-IDF is the official framework to develop applications on any family of ESP32 series microcontrollers, maintained by Espressif Systems. It comes with the entire set of command-line utilities that you would need in your ESP32 projects. PlatformIO adds more IDE features on top of that. With its strong integration with the VSCode IDE and declarative project configuration approach, it provides a professional environment for embedded developers.
In the next chapter, we’ll discuss the ESP32 peripherals. Although it is impossible to cover all of them in a single chapter, we will learn about the common peripherals using examples so that we can easily carry out the tasks in real projects and the other experiments in the book.
