Why fetch() does not work?

Question

I\'m trying to fetch a collection from a JSON url. The backbone does send the request and does get a response but there are no models in the collection after it

Answer 1

fetchis asynchronous. Try

stores.fetch({ 
    success:function() {
        console.log(stores.toJSON());
    }
});

or

stores.on("sync", function() {
    console.log(stores.toJSON());
});
stores.fetch();

or

stores.fetch().then(function() {
    console.log(stores.toJSON());
});

Answer 2

Get rid of the initialize function in your Item class. You don't need it.

There's no such thing as stores.models -- if you want to see what's in it, you have to do console.log(stores.toJSON());