Can I launch nodes via javascript with roslibjs?

I have in mind to develop a web application that sends coordinates to a mobile robot and a start button for the robot to start the mission of navigation avoiding obstacles developed in python. Is this possible with rosbridge and roslibjs?

I appreciate any ideas for this project

Hello @aserrate,

Quick and fast, I don’t think so! You can interact with ROS topics, services, params… even action servers, but I didn’t find nodes or launch files in the API page.

http://robotwebtools.org/jsdoc/roslibjs/current/

Although, if you search deeper, you may find some other examples integrating roslibjs with some prepared nodes in order to make it possible, or at least get closer. Check out this example, I didn’t test myself, but it seems similar to what you are looking for:

I hope it helps you.

Regards!