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JSDoc can be found on the Robot Web Tools website.
This project is released as part of the Robot Web Tools effort.
Install roslibjs with any NPM-compatible package manager via, for example,
npm install roslib
Check that connection is established. You can listen to error and connection events to report them to console.
ros.on("error", function (error) {
console.log(error);
});
ros.on("connection", function () {
console.log("Connection made!");
});
Check out the roslib-examples package for some complete examples!
Check that you have the websocket server is running on port 9090. Something like this should do:
netstat -a | grep 9090
roslibjs has a number of dependencies. You will need to run:
npm install
Depending on your build environment.
roslibjs tries to keep the development process simple by storing all relevant tasks as scripts in the package.json file. Some useful ones are as follows:
npm run build
npm run test
npm run lint
roslibjs is released with a BSD license. For full terms and conditions, see the LICENSE file.
See the contributors section of the package.json file for a full list of contributors.
FAQs
The standard ROS Javascript Library
The npm package roslib receives a total of 13,225 weekly downloads. As such, roslib popularity was classified as popular.
We found that roslib demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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