Not precompiling templates?

[macb]

In development, everything works just fine but when I move to production, my templates are just plain text, causing them to not render.

In production, after running a successful node r.js -o app.build.js, I notice that the network traffic is correct (only seeing main.js), but when I console.log my templates in my view, it's just a string of the template's HTML, but the compiled function that I would expect.

({
  appDir:".",
  baseUrl:"./client",
  dir:"./build",
  optimizeCss:"standard",
  inlineText:!0,
  pragmasOnSave: {
    excludeHbsParser:!0,
    excludeHbs:!0,
    excludeAfterBuild:!0
  },
  shim: {
    underscore: {
      exports: '_'
    },
    backbone: {
      deps: ['underscore', 'jquery'],
      exports: 'Backbone'
    },
    handlebars: {
      exports: 'Handlebars'
    },
    marionette: {
      deps: ['backbone'],
      exports: 'Marionette'
    },
    "marionette.handlebars": {
      deps: ['backbone', 'marionette'],
      exports: "Marionette.Handlebars"
    }
  },
  paths: {
    jquery: "lib/jquery-1.10.2.min",
    hbs: "lib/hbs",
    json2: "lib/json2",
    i18nprecompile: "lib/i18nprecompile",
    marionette: "lib/backbone.marionette",
    "marionette.handlebars": "lib/marionette.handlebars",
    underscore: "lib/underscore-min",
    backbone: "lib/backbone-min",
    handlebars: "lib/handlebars"
  },
  locale:"en_ca",
  hbs:{
    templateExtension:"hbs",
    disableI18n:!1
  },
  modules:[
    {
      name: "main"
    }
  ]
})

example view:

define([
  'jquery',
  'underscore',
  'backbone',
  'handlebars',
  'marionette',
  'marionette.handlebars',
  'hbs!templates/item/item',
  'hbs!templates/item/backpack'
],
function($, _, Backbone, Handlebars, Marionette, MarionetteHandlebars, itemTemplate, backpackTemplate) {
  var ItemView = Backbone.Marionette.ItemView.extend({
    template: itemTemplate,
    onRender: function() {
      console.log(this.template)
    }
  });
  var BackpackView = Backbone.Marionette.CollectionView.extend({
    itemView: ItemView,
    template: backpackTemplate
  });


  return {
    ItemView: ItemView,
    BackpackView: BackpackView
  };
});