ROS2 Web Integration Skill

When to Use This Skill

• Building a web dashboard to monitor or control a robot running ROS2
• Streaming camera feeds (MJPEG, WebRTC, compressed WebSocket) from a robot to a browser
• Exposing ROS2 services and actions as REST API endpoints
• Implementing bidirectional WebSocket communication between a web UI and ROS2 nodes
• Setting up rosbridge_suite for quick prototyping or foxglove integration
• Writing a custom FastAPI or Flask bridge to ROS2 for production deployments
• Adding authentication, rate limiting, or CORS to robot web interfaces
• Running an async web server (uvicorn) alongside the rclpy executor without deadlocks
• Publishing teleop commands from a browser joystick to cmd_vel
• Serving ROS2 parameter configuration pages or diagnostic dashboards over HTTP

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