Angular 5+ cannot save result form observable response
I have an Angular app which consumes data from a webapi. When i make a request then i get an typed observable. now when i do this: data: Product[]; productService.getByProductId("061000957").subscribe(res => { console.log(res); this.data = res; }); console.log(this.data); what i see in the console i can see this I can clearly see, that the result has the Product i need. But why cant i save this to my local variable data? Thanks Observable is asynchronous just like promise. So console.log(this.data); is executed before the response is returned . Try . data: Product[]; productService