@lichtjaeger the Arrow function works perfectly. Do you mind explaining why and how arrow function are different?

@maruru thank you for noticing that, I have corrected it

the problem with the angular@http is that you can only use it in an Angular2 service. Mine is a vanilla TS class file, no decorations at all.

got it but when I add it to an Angular2 project, I get an error saying: const http = require('http'); if looks for ./https.js. this project uses systemjs for loading modules. Any ideas on how to get around that?

do you have any idea how to use this package in typescript or better yet Angular2?

I am not using injectable decorator as I am only using it in a vanilla TS module, same as I use the lodash module or moment... I tried using the request module by install the npm module and importing as 'request': './node_modules/request/index.js', in systemjs.config.js and in my module file, I have import request = require('request'); and the compiler complains that it cannot find module request. Thoughts? Is there a number of fixed steps that one has to perform to use vanilla node module in a TS or Angular 2 project?

Thanks but the example is a full blown Angular2 service. What I am doing is trivial and is really 2 lines of code if I figure out what my issue is.

awesome response, thank you so very much

when I run the above code, this is Angular 2 project I need to mention, I still get zone.js:1382 GET http://localhost:3000/node_modules/fs.js 404 (Not Found) Any ideas, where this is coming from?

you are correct Sebastien. I had to modify many files (Angular 2) config files to get that to work