Synchronous setTimeout + Loop [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is the expected behaviour in JavaScript. Your first function will loop to the end almost immediately, not in 5000*20 milliseconds.

This is what you can do: create a IIFE with a setTimeout inside:

var i = 0;
(function loop(){
  if (i++ > 20) return;
  setTimeout(function(){
    alert("hi");
    loop();
  }, 5000);
})();

Here is the fiddle:https: https://jsfiddle.net/f6ztxmgp/1/

You can simple change the alert("hi") part to doSomething().