Backbone collection parse never fires, collection.models should have 2 items but is 0 - backbone-events

Question

Here is my MemberView.js ...
define([
'jquery',
'underscore',
'backbone',
'collections/MembersCollection',
'text!templates/memTemplate.html'
], function($, _, Backbone, MembersCollection, memTemplate) {
var MembersView = Backbone.View.extend({
el: $("#page"),
initialize: function() {
var that = this;
this.collection = new MembersCollection([]);
this.collection.fetch({
success : function(collection, response, options) {
that.render();
},
error: function(collection, response, options) {
console.log('members fetch error: '+response.responseText);
alert(response.responseText);
}
});
},
render: function() {
var data = { members : this.collection.models };
var compiledTemplate = _.template( memTemplate, data );
this.$el.html( compiledTemplate );
}
});
return MembersView;
});
Here is my MemberCollection.js ...
define([
'jquery',
'underscore',
'backbone',
'models/Member'
], function($, _, Backbone, Member) {
var MembersCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
model: Member,
initialize : function(models, options) { },
url : '/modular-backbone/server/member',
parse: function (response) {
console.log("In Parse=" + response.length);
return response;
}
});
return MembersCollection;
});
There is never a "In Parse=?" in the console so I have to assume collection.parse is not fireing. Also, if I put a break in the view.render method, collection.models is always a zero length array even though I can clearly see 2 Member records in the fetch success response. What am I missing?
Thanks a lot for your advice :-)

Answer 1

Unbelievable...
I went back and cleaned up a bunch of commented out lines in a few js files, ran the app again and now it's working perfectly. This makes no sense at all.