await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
//You have to wait for TypeScript 2.0 with async/await for ES5 support as it now supported only for TS to ES6 compilation.
//You would be able to create delay function with async:
function delay(ms: number) {
return new Promise( resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms) );
}
//And call it
await delay(300);
console.log("Hello");
setTimeout(() => { console.log("World!"); }, 2000);