Add “Recent Posts” from a wordpress blog to a html static page

I’m working on a new project and my client needs a site with blog.

But I’m a terrible PHP programmer.. So I created the entire site on HTML/CSS and the blog with wordpress.
OK, sounds good! but how to put the “Recent posts” from the blog(wordpress) in my index html page?

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  1. Method 1 : wp_get_recent_posts()

    According to WordPress codex: wp_get_recent_posts() will return a list of posts. Different from get_posts which returns an array of post objects.

    <?php
    
        include('blog/wp-load.php'); // Blog path
    
        // Get the last 5 posts
        $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(array(
          'numberposts' => 5,
          'post_type' => 'post',
          'post_status' => 'publish'
        ));
    
        // Display them as list
        echo '<ul>';
        foreach($recent_posts as $post) {
          echo '<li><a href="', get_permalink($post['ID']), '">', $post['post_title'], '</a></li>';
        }
        echo '</ul>';
    
    ?>
    

    Method 2 : WordPress loop

    <?php
    
        define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
        include('blog/wp-load.php'); // Your blog path
        //Get 5 posts
        query_posts('showposts=5');
    
        // Display them as list
        echo '<ul>';
        foreach($recent_posts as $post) {
          echo '<li><a href="', the_permalink(), '">', the_title(), '</a></li>';
        }
        echo '</ul>';
    
    ?>
    

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