ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Setting up rosbridge client libraries

To store all these library files, you can create a folder called ros_web_ws. Actually, there is no need to create a catkin workspace because we don't need to build the modules. You will get the prebuilt modules once you download it from the repositories.

Switch to the ros_web_ws folder and run the following commands to clone each ROS JavaScript library:

For roslibjs:

    $ git clone https://github.com/RobotWebTools/roslibjs.git

For ros2djs:

    $ git clone https://github.com/RobotWebTools/ros2djs

For ros3djs:

    $ git clone https://github.com/RobotWebTools/ros3djs

If you check out the ros3djs folder, you will see the following:

Figure 2: The ros3d_js module folder

The build folder contains the ros3djs.js modules, ...