For whatever reason, I signed my team up to create a WeChat mini-app for Nike. WeChat is a huge social media platform that is widely used in China. We have never done anything like this, so there is some business risk.
While implementing the solution I designed, Michael on my team hit a significant CORS issue. It seemed like a real show-stopper. I’m not a specialist when it comes to modern JavaScript apps, so my brief investigation and efforts confirmed the situation. I got my boss and some other colleagues involved to try to find alternative solutions. My concern and anxiety grew because we need to deliver within a week. I also prayed for help.
We came up with some ok options, but nothing was really compelling or easy. At the end of the day I sent the broken app to our Nike colleague in China for testing, just to see what it would do. As I was preparing to send the code, the thought came to me to try and fix the CORS issue again. I searched for help on Google and this time a new article came up. It explained in good detail the issue I was having and made suggestions to fix it. I followed those recommendations and it worked. I was elated and over joyed to be able to communicate to everyone that the original design was going to work. After some testing, it was confirmed that the fix works. I sent the code off to China and now await the results of testing fro there.
The thought to try again was inspiration from the Lord. The new article was a gift from the Lord; Michael and I had spent hours previously search for help online. It’s no coincidence to me that exactly what I needed showed up at the end of the day. The Lord delivered me, even at work.
This verse seems applicable:
“Now ye see that this is the true faith of God; yea, ye see that God will support, and keep, and preserve us, so long as we are faithful unto him, and unto our faith, and our religion; and never will the Lord suffer that we shall be destroyed except we should fall into transgression and deny our faith.” Alma 44:4