This example demonstrates the initial step of working with tabular data in a web environment: fetching a CSV file and logging its raw text to the browser console. It uses the native Fetch API via an asynchronous `fetchText` function to retrieve the file from a GitHub gist containing CSS named colors. The code then invokes `response.text()` to parse the response body as a plain string. This minimal React-free setup highlights the core pattern of loading remote data before any visualization-specific libraries, such as D3, would be applied.