I have an angular 2 Component which make use of service that is getting data from rest api. import { OnInit, Component } from '@angular/core'; import { Hero } from './hero'; import { HeroService } from './hero.service2'; import { Observable } from 'rxjs'; @Component({ selector: 'my-list', templateUrl: 'app/hero-list.component.html', }) export class HeroListComponent implements OnInit { errorMessage: string; heroes: Observable<Hero[]>; mode = 'Observable'; constructor ( private heroService: HeroService ) {} ngOnInit() { this.getHeroes(); } getHeroes() { this.heroes = this.heroService.getHeroes() } addHero (name: string) { if (!name) { return; } this.heroService.addHero(name) .subscribe( hero => this.getHeroes() ); } } How can i improve addHero ? Because right now it looks like very inefficient. I would like to just add hero that is returned by this.heroService.addHero() to heroes Observable. How do i do that? Continue reading...