I had the same issue and gave up on the whole idea. last week I gave it one last chance and had another go. this time I was successful.ESPBasic. It is yery unstable, Especially when modifing or editing the code you have flashed into the device.
the main issues I had :-
1. power supply not good enough
2. using ie 11 to access the esp module , changed over to Mozilla and all the problems disappeared
3. impatience (when you format the user flash space you get a done message when finished I'm not sure I always waited for it )
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