I have to make an Angular application in which i get data from the back-end and display it on the front-end, but with some added hard-coded data. My communication is between 2 files: client.service.ts import { Injectable } from '@angular/core'; import {HttpClient, HttpHeaders} from "@angular/common/http"; import {environment} from "../environments/environment"; import {catchError, map, Observable, of} from "rxjs"; const clientUrl = environment.apiUrl+'client'; @Injectable({providedIn: 'root'}) export class ClientService { public optional: any; constructor(private http: HttpClient) {} getText(): Observable<any> { console.log("it works!"); return this.http.get(clientUrl+"/getText").pipe(map(res => { console.log(res); this.optional = res.toString(); })); } } and the second one: client.component.ts import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core'; import {ClientService} from "../client.service"; @Component({ selector: 'app-client', templateUrl: './client.component.html', styleUrls: ['./client.component.css'] }) export class ClientComponent implements OnInit { public textResponse: any; constructor(public service: ClientService) {} ngOnInit(): void {} getText() { let text: any; this.textResponse = this.service.getText().subscribe(); console.log(this.textResponse); text = this.textResponse + "This text is added from code."; console.log(text); } } When i call "this.http.get(clientUrl+"/getText")" I get a SafeSubscriber object, from which i managed to get the data displayed in the console using the method ".subscribe(...)" with a "console.log()" inside of it. However, i did not find any method to extract the data out of this subscribe. As the code above shows, i have tried to use pipe and map, but the local variable is returned as [Object object], and when i print it in the console i get either undefined, either nothing. This is what my code currently displays: it works! [client.service.ts:33] SafeSubscriber {initialTeardown: undefined, closed: false, _parentage: null, _finalizers: Array(1), isStopped: false, …} [client.component.ts] [object Object]This text is added from code. [client.component.ts] {text: 'This text is read from a file.'} [client.service.ts] I have also tried all the suggestions found in questions below: angular 2 how to return data from subscribe Angular observable retrieve data using subscribe Does anyone know a method in which i could get the data out of the Subscribe? Continue reading...