Recommended · for some experience
#159 Big ESP32 Boards Review and Test
Why people recommend it
Pointed to for measured ESP32 sleep currents, especially the finding that dev boards draw far more than bare modules, which matters for battery projects.
Watch for: Dates from 2017, so newer boards may differ
In their words
Check YouTube Andreas Spiess - [video] (I deleted my previous comment with the wrong name)
Edgar on arduino.stackexchange.com, Aug 2019. CC BY-SA.