Publish a cmd_vel geometry msgs/twist from webserver over rosbridge to RVIZ

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I am new to ROS and I am trying to publish a cmd_vel geometry_msgs/twist from my Webserver and visualize it in RVIZ, so that I can see the robot moving.

I am running the ROS distro kinetic on a virtual machine with Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. And I built my webserver using nodejs.

I also already installed rosbridge on the VM and successfully launched it using:

$ roslaunch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket.launch

And with this cmd I successfully launch RVIZ version 1.12.17 (kinetic):

$ roslaunch franka_own_simulator demo.launch rviz_tutorial:=true

This is the code I implemented on my webserver:

var ros = new ROSLIB.Ros({
  url: 'ws://192.168.59.130:9090'
})

ros.on('connection', () => {
  console.log('connected to webserver')
})

ros.on('error', function(error) {
  console.log('Error connecting to websocket server: ', error)
})

var cmdVel = new ROSLIB.Topic({
  ros: ros,
  name: '/cmd_vel',
  messageType: 'geometry_msgs/Twist'
})

var twist = new ROSLIB.Message({
  linear : {
    x : 0.1,
    y : 4.2,
    z : 0.3
  },
  angular : {
    x : -0.1,
    y : -0.2,
    z : -4.3
  }
})
cmdVel.publish(twist)
console.log('message sent')

With this code I am able to connect to the rosbridge I launched on the VM and I am also able to echo the cmdVel message, on the VM, that was sent, using:

$ rostopic echo /cmd_vel
linear: 
  x: 0.1
  y: 4.2
  z: 0.3
angular: 
  x: -0.1
  y: -0.2
  z: -4.3

But the simulated robot in RVIZ doesn't move.

My Question now is: How am I able to subscribe RVIZ to this topic, so that I am able to steer the robot by sending messages from my webserver? Or am I just using the wrong topic?

I don't know if this is of relevance in order to help with my problem, but these are the active nodes on my VM:

$ rosnode list

/joint_state_publisher
/move_group
/robot_state_publisher
/rosapi
/rosbridge_websocket
/rosout
/rviz_ubuntu_6623_2637754878704116255