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Adafruit provides a really nice firmware flashing tutorial. Below you'll find just the basics for the two popular tools esptool and NodeMCU Flasher.
!!! note "Note:"
Keep in mind that the ESP8266 needs to be put into flash mode before you can flash a new firmware!
To enable ESP8266 firmware flashing GPIO0 pin must be pulled low before the device is reset. Conversely, for a normal boot, GPIO0 must be pulled high or floating.
If you have a NodeMCU dev kit then you don't need to do anything, as the USB connection can pull GPIO0 low by asserting DTR and reset your board by asserting RTS.
If you have an ESP-01 or other device without built-in USB, you will need to enable flashing yourself by pulling GPIO0 low or pressing a "flash" switch.
esptool
A cute Python utility to communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266. It is intended to be a simple, platform independent, open source replacement for XTCOM.
Source: https://github.com/themadinventor/esptool
Supported platforms: OS X, Linux, Windows, anything that runs Python
Running esptool.py
Run the following command to flash an aggregated binary as is produced for example by the cloud build service or the Docker image.
esptool.py --port <USB-port-with-ESP8266> write_flash 0x00000 <nodemcu-firmware>.bin
NodeMCU Flasher
A firmware Flash tool for NodeMCU...We are working on next version and will use QT framework. It will be cross platform and open-source.
Source: https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-flasher
Supported platforms: Windows