promised-timeout.js

function promiseTimeout(msec) {
  return promise => {
    const timeout = new Promise((yea, nah) => setTimeout(() => nah(new Error('Timeout expired')), msec))
    return Promise.race([promise, timeout])
  }
}

// Before: fetch('https://api.github.com/orgs/nodejs'))
promiseTimeout(5000)(fetch('https://api.github.com/orgs/nodejs'))
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => {
  console.log(data) // Prints result from `response.json()` in getRequest
})
.catch(error => console.error(error))