Using <script> in html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>People entered:</h1>
<h2 id="count-el">0</h2>
<script>
document.getElementById("count-el").innerText = 5;
</script>
</body>
</html>
Using index.js
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>People entered:</h1>
<h2 id="count-el">0</h2>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>