ROS2 rclnodejs

Installation instructions for Kubuntu 18.04 Bionic

How to start a nodejs application for ROS2 with rclnodejs

• Install colcon
• Get ros2-bouncy-linux-bionic-x86_64.tar.bz2 from release page
• Unpack to somewhere
• Create ros2 workspace for development, see Colcon tutorial
• Clone ros2-interfaces to ~/ros2_ws/src
• Build:

cd ~/ros2_ws
source somehwere/ros2-linux/setup.bash
colcon build --packages-select elphel_interfaces

• Then need to source only:

source ~/ros2_ws/install/setup.bash

• Then clone rclnodejs

cd rclnodejs
source ~/ros2_ws/install/setup.bash
yarn install
yarn link

• Then use express generator to create some project:

source ~/ros2_ws/install/setup.bash
cd to some project 
yarn link "rclnodejs"
...
yarn add jquery or anything else
...
yarn start