I have a wide supply of ESP8266 (and ESP32) boards and modules in my collection. I have a bad batch of fake Lolin / Wemos D1 mini's with a bad USB to serial chip.
They are hard to connect and program. A board like this helps. It comes with a CH340 usb to serial chip that works without problems under Windows10/11 and Linux and has a USB-C connector. The PCB comes without headers, but if you buy Lolin / Wemos D1 boards you end up with a lot of those headers that you can use here.

I soldered the headers with the long pins to the PCB. In this way i can stick it onto a breadboard.
The PCB itself has quite brittle connectors; the golden loops that hold the ESP module. The comment section on Ali mentions this every time: When you receive the PCB the loops are already bent.

That's why i designed a box around all this.
The size is approx. 65mm x 34mm x 23mm height.

You can put the PCB in from the top side. It rests on triangles on both ends. The smaller triangles on the sides keep the PCB in place. Just bend the case sides outward to get the PCB out.

You can find these boards using these keywords:
"ESP8266 ESP32-WROVER Development Board Test Programmer Socket Downloader for ESP-01 ESP01S ESP32"

It works for me. I hope you can use it.