Increasingly impressed with all the work on micropython and looking forward to incorporating it into what we do at @ShrimpingIt ! Trying to bottom out a few issues about how we should pre-flash ESP01 (1Meg) and NodeMcu v2 boards for the greatest possible accessibility for our learners.

Being able to program them standalone from a laptop, tablet or phone is really powerful. However, currently I have been visiting http://micropython.org/webrepl/ then switching Wifi network to be able to connect to the ESP8266 module. This will not be possible for all our learners and ideally having a mobile phone would be enough to be able to program or issue commands to these devices.

This suggests we should attempt to serve the webrepl.html and supporting files direct from the ESP8266. However, I am surprised not to see this configuration documented anywhere. Is there a reason this hasn't been attempted which I can't yet fathom?

Is it worth putting together a module which serves the browser interface files ( https://github.com/micropython/webrepl ) on some port or is it somehow incompatible to host a webserver on http://192.168.4.1:80 at the same time as the repl socket on ws://192.168.4.1:8266/?