fitBounds() shows whole earth (if map is first hidden and then shown)

Question

I have a bunch or markers, and I want to show only the area containing them. I found a long list of similar questions (see at the bottom of the post for some), but none of the s

Answer 1

To expand a bit on @JayThakkar 's answer, this worked for me

google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(map, 'idle', function(){
    map.fitBounds(bounds);
});

The addListenerOnce function removes the need to call google.maps.event.removeListener(listener);. And calling map.fitBounds(bounds) inside the listener let us use the calculated bounds's zoom level.