Unable to display list of active users in sails and node, no errors?

I have a table on my index.ejs file that should display the current logged in users (via appending table rows). Here is how it's built:

            <table id="status-table" class="table table-bordered table-hover">
                    <thead>
                        <tr>
                            <th>Player</th>
                            <th>Status</th>
                            <th>Score</th>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>
                    <tbody></tbody>
                </table>

In my user.js model (file route: assets/js/user.js), I create this function:

addUser: function(user) {

            var found = false;

            // Check if the user is already in the table
            $('#status-table tr').each(function() {
                var hasUser = $(this).attr('id');

                if (hasUser !== undefined && ('user-' + user.id == hasUser)) {
                    found = true;
                }
            });

            if (!found) {
                var $table = $('#status-table');
                var ready = (user.id == me.id) ? '<button type="button" id="changeStatus" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">change</button>' : '';
                var row = '<tr id="user-'+user.id+'"><td class="name" data-avatar="'+user.avatar+'">'+user.name+'</td><td><img class="flag" src="http://api.hostip.info/flag.php?ip='+user.ip+'" width="20" height="14" alt=""><span class="status" data-status="'+user.status+'">'+user.status+'</span>'+ready+'</td><td class="score">'+user.score+'</td></tr>';
                $table.append(row);

                QW_MODULES.chat.updateUI();
            }
        }

This function should fire because in my app.js I call an init to that entire user.js file on "socket connection".

io.socket.on('connect', function socketConnected() {
    QW_MODULES.user.init();
});

What could be going wrong to not fire this function? I'm not receiving any errors on login/sign up.

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