[javascript] Angular 5 Service to read local .json file

Using Typescript 3.6.3, and Angular 6, none of these solutions worked for me.

What did work was to follow the tutorial here which says you need to add a small file called njson-typings.d.ts to your project, containing this:

declare module "*.json" {
  const value: any;
  export default value;
}

Once this was done, I could simply import my hardcoded json data:

import employeeData from '../../assets/employees.json';

and use it in my component:

export class FetchDataComponent implements OnInit {
  public employees: Employee[];

  constructor() {
    //  Load the data from a hardcoded .json file
    this.employees = employeeData;
    . . . .
  }