Hi...i am a new user here. I also faced the same issue. As per my experience if you disconnect and reconnect then it may work - problem is Espruino wasn't able to communicate with the board properly when you connected so it wasn't aware that it was an ESP8266 which has a Wifi module.
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Hi...i am a new user here. I also faced the same issue. As per my experience if you disconnect and reconnect then it may work - problem is Espruino wasn't able to communicate with the board properly when you connected so it wasn't aware that it was an ESP8266 which has a Wifi module.