#Install node js mac brew how to#

This might give you the following results homebrew/versions/node012 You can specify rules about the version of gazebojs you want to use in the package.json file (see ). Like Gazebo, gazebojs module uses semantic versioning, so the major version of gazebojs should be the same as the major version of Gazebo you are using. This is because the Node.js Gazebo modules are automatically compiled on your machine when the npm install gazebojs is invoked (see below). The dev libraries also contain the Gazebo header files that are necessary for the gazebojs installation. The homebrew install of Gazebo also install the corresponding development libraries (for example, libgazebo6-dev for Gazebo 6). Please refer to the Install Gazebo on Mac (using homebrew).

#Install node js mac brew how to#

This tutorial shows how to download, install and compile Gazebojs on a computer where Gazebo and its development libraries are installed. This page explains how to install the GazeboJs Node bindings to Gazebo. The source code for this project can be found here: This is the same mechanism that the Gazebo simulation client (the gzclient process) uses to communicate with the simulation server. Once loaded, it provides javascript functions that communicate with the Gazebo simultation server (the gzserver process) over the network, using the Gazebo transport library.

GazeboJs is a C++ addon to Node.js that is loaded inside node process at runtime (using the require javascript function). Specifically, it provides a javascript client for the simulator, using Node.js and built on Google's V8 script engine. GazeboJs provides a scripting interface to the Gazebo simulator.