Understanding the implementation

Let's break it down chunk by chunk. First, the declaration of the service is pretty standard:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core'; 
import { Http }  from '@angular/http'; 
  
import { Movie, MovieFields } from '../models/movie'; 
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx'; 
import 'rxjs/Rx'; 
  
@Injectable() 
export class IMDBAPIService { 
  
  private moviesUrl:string = "app/marvel-cinematic-universe.json"; 
  constructor(private http: Http) { } 

Services are injectable. Consequently, we need to import and add the @Injectable annotation. We also import Http, Movie, MovieFields, Observable, and the operators of RxJS. RxJS stands for Reactive Extensions for JavaScript. It is an API to do Observer, iterator, and functional programming. ...

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