Upload a File and Read Data with FileReader in Angular 2

Question

I am trying to create an upload form in Angular 2 ts (2.2.1), that allows the upload of e.g. a CSV file, but instead of the file being sent straight to a http service I want

Answer 1

mxii's answer implicitly casts to string, which didn't work for me, maybe with the newer versions of angular it's not allowed anymore.

what did work for me was;

JSON.parse(fileReader.result as string)