If you’re looking for a more advanced IDE to write your applications for the ESP32 and ESP8266 boards, VS Code with the PlatformIO IDE extension is a great option.

You can hide certain parts of the code.

Multiple open tabs: you can have several code tabs open at once.

Error Highlights: VS Code + PIO underlines errors in your code before compiling.

IntelliSense code completion tries to guess what you want to write, displaying the different possibilities and provides insight into the parameters that a function may expect

It detects the COM port your board is connected to automatically.

Here’s some of the advantages of using VS Code with PlatformIO IDE over Arduino IDE: VS Code with the PlatformIO IDE extension is a great alternative to the classical Arduino IDE, especially when you’re working on more advanced sketches for larger applications. In this tutorial you’ve learned how to install and prepare Visual Studio Code to work with the ESP32 and ESP8266 boards. Alternatively, you can go to the PIO Project Tasks menu and select Upload.įor a complete list of VS Code shortcuts for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, check the next link: Now, you can click on the Upload icon to compile and upload the code. Additionally, if you have a syntax error somewhere in your program, it will underline it in red even before compiling.Īfter that, press Ctrl+ S or go to File > Save to save the file.

We recommend that you copy this code manually, so that you see the autocompletion and other interesting features of the IDE in action. It works with the ESP32 and ESP8266 boards (both have the on-board LED connected to GPIO 2). This code blinks the on-board LED every second. put your main code here, to run repeatedly: put your setup code here, to run once: Uploading Code using PlatformIO IDE: ESP32/ESP8266Ĭopy the following code to your main.cpp file. In PlatformIO, all your Arduino sketches should start with the #include.

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