Synchronous delay in code execution

Question

I have a code which needs to be executed after some delay say 5000 ms.Currently I am using setTimeout but it is asynchronous and i want the execution to wait for its return.

Answer 1

I have made a simple synchronous timeout function. It works in two different ways, callback and non-callback.

function:

function wait(ms, cb) {
  var waitDateOne = new Date();
  while ((new Date()) - waitDateOne <= ms) {
    //Nothing
  }
  if (cb) {
    eval(cb);
  }
}

callback example:

wait(5000,"doSomething();");

non-callback example:

console.log("Instant!");
wait(5000);
console.log("5 second delay");