Angular 5 Service to read local .json file

First You have to inject HttpClient and Not HttpClientModule, second thing you have to remove .map((res:any) => res.json()) you won't need it any more because the new HttpClient will give you the body of the response by default , finally make sure that you import HttpClientModule in your AppModule :

import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http'; 
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable()
export class AppSettingsService {

   constructor(private http: HttpClient) {
        this.getJSON().subscribe(data => {
            console.log(data);
        });
    }

    public getJSON(): Observable<any> {
        return this.http.get("./assets/mydata.json");
    }
}

to add this to your Component:

@Component({
    selector: 'mycmp',
    templateUrl: 'my.component.html',
    styleUrls: ['my.component.css']
})
export class MyComponent implements OnInit {
    constructor(
        private appSettingsService : AppSettingsService 
    ) { }

   ngOnInit(){
       this.appSettingsService.getJSON().subscribe(data => {
            console.log(data);
        });
   }
}

For Angular 7, I followed these steps to directly import json data:

In tsconfig.app.json:

add "resolveJsonModule": true in "compilerOptions"

In a service or component:

import * as exampleData from '../example.json';

And then

private example = exampleData;