Development platforms and frameworks

ESP32 is quite popular. Therefore, there are a good number of options that you can select as your development platform and framework.

The first framework, of course, comes directly from Espressif itself. They call it the Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF). It supports all three main OS environments – Windows, macOS, and Linux. After installing some prerequisite packages, you can download the ESP-IDF from the GitHub repository and install it on your development PC. They have collected all the necessary functionality into a single Python script, named idf.py, for developers. You can configure project parameters and generate a final binary image by using this command-line tool.

You can also use it in every step of your project, starting from the build phase to connecting and monitoring your ESP32 board from the serial port of your computer. If you are a more graphical UI person, then you need to install Visual Studio Code...