Setting Up the Latest ESP-IDF Environment

Introduction

There are several ESP32 development environments:

• MicroPython
• Arduino IDE
  • Platformio
• ESP-IDF
  • CLion+IDF
  • WSL2+IDF
  • vscode+IDF
  • espressif-ide
    vscode+IDF is my top recommendation

VSCODE Configuration

Installation

It's best to check all of these

Configuration

After installing, create a new profile (Espressif)
After switching to that profile, install the following extensions:

Once that's installed, the VSCODE configuration is done

IDF Installation

Downloading the Installer

ESP-IDF offline installer download

Installation

You can check only the board you're using; if you have plenty of disk space, just check everything without thinking

Configuration

Import the newly installed IDF environment

Create a new project

Basic IDF Operations