[typescript] How to deal with http status codes other than 200 in Angular 2

Right now the way I do http requests (borrowed from this answer) is this:

POST(url, data) {
        var headers = new Headers(), authtoken = localStorage.getItem('authtoken');
        headers.append("Content-Type", 'application/json');

        if (authtoken) {
        headers.append("Authorization", 'Token ' + authtoken)
        }
        headers.append("Accept", 'application/json');

        var requestoptions = new RequestOptions({
            method: RequestMethod.Post,
            url: this.apiURL + url,
            headers: headers,
            body: JSON.stringify(data)
        })

        return this.http.request(new Request(requestoptions))
        .map((res: Response) => {
            if (res) {
                return { status: res.status, json: res.json() }
            }
        });
    }

This works fine, except for the fact that angular2 will fail if the status code returned is anything else than 200. For example, if a user wants to post something and the server returns 400, angular 2 will throw the exception:

uncaught exception: [object Object]

How can I avoid this? I'd like to handle these status codes in my app in order to enhance user experience (show errors, etc)

Include required imports and you can make ur decision in handleError method Error status will give the error code

import { HttpClient, HttpErrorResponse } from '@angular/common/http';
import {Observable, throwError} from "rxjs/index";
import { catchError, retry } from 'rxjs/operators';
import {ApiResponse} from "../model/api.response";
import { TaxType } from '../model/taxtype.model'; 

private handleError(error: HttpErrorResponse) {
if (error.error instanceof ErrorEvent) {
  // A client-side or network error occurred. Handle it accordingly.
  console.error('An error occurred:', error.error.message);
} else {
  // The backend returned an unsuccessful response code.
  // The response body may contain clues as to what went wrong,
  console.error(
    `Backend returned code ${error.status}, ` +
    `body was: ${error.error}`);
}
// return an observable with a user-facing error message
return throwError(
  'Something bad happened; please try again later.');
  };

  getTaxTypes() : Observable<ApiResponse> {
return this.http.get<ApiResponse>(this.baseUrl).pipe(
  catchError(this.handleError)
);
  }