Can't loop or use if statements in template

[beautifulgarbage]

First off, thank you so much for putting this together! Super helpful way to get started on a WP backbone based theme.

I have been extending out the base theme you provide in this repo, but I seem to have hit a major roadblock. Currently no matter what I do I cannot loop through arrays in my templates.

Even something basic like:
{{ _.each([0,1,2,3,4], function(i) { }}
THIS IS A MEMBER
{{ }); }}

I have tried all sorts of different variations on an each loop such as {{#each data.teamMembers }} but no love so far.

In my app.js I have _.templateSettings = { interpolate: /{{=(.+?)}}/g, evaluate: /{{(.+?)}}/g, };
which should in theory allow me to loop items using something like:
{{ _.each(data.teamMembers, function(val,i){ }}

Any insight on what I may be able to do in order to loop through data coming from the model?

thanks in advance for any advice you may be able to provide!

[beautifulgarbage]

I should add that when I use the loop syntax above, I get the error:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token )