ESP-IDF now supports Apache Mynewt NimBLE host stack which is ported for the ESP32 platform and FreeRTOS. NimBLE is an open-source Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) or Bluetooth Smart stack (both host and controller) fully compliant with Bluetooth 5 specifications and with support for BLE Mesh. More details can be found here: https://mynewt.apache.org/. NimBLE, being BLE only, is a footprint optimised stack and can be used in a variety of applications involving BLE.
The NimBLE preview release is made available on ESP-IDF Github: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/feature/nimble-preview
A few examples, ported from the NimBLE repository, can be found here: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/feature/nimble-preview/examples/bluetooth/nimble
The porting layer is kept cleaner by maintaining all the existing APIs of NimBLE along with a single ESP-NimBLE API for initialisation, making it simpler for the application developers. The documentation of NimBLE APIs can be found at: https://mynewt.apache.org/