Historically jQuery was seen as an absolute minimal to create anything with JavaScript. That time has past now that relatively modern browsers has excellent support for a lot of the things jQuery helped us with -- at least with the trivial examples shown in our README. Therefore removing jQuery usage from our examples as that should not be a necessary dependency in these examples.

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 #### Include Templates

 If you need a template for a dynamic part in a static website, you can consider including the template in the static HTML file to avoid loading templates separately. Here's a small example using `jQuery`:
 If you need a template for a dynamic part in a static website, you can consider including the template in the static HTML file to avoid loading templates separately. Here's a small example:

 ```js
 // file: render.js

 function renderHello() {
  var template = document.getElementById('template').innerHTML;
  var rendered = Mustache.render(template, { name: 'Luke' });
  document.getElementById('target').innerHTML = rendered;
 }
 ```

 ```html
 <!DOCTYPE HTML>
 <html>
 <body onload="loadUser()">
 <div id="target">Loading...</div>
 <script id="template" type="x-tmpl-mustache">
 Hello {{ name }}!
 </script>
 </body>
  <body onload="renderHello()">
    <div id="target">Loading...</div>
    <script id="template" type="x-tmpl-mustache">
      Hello {{ name }}!
    </script>

    <script src="https://unpkg.com/mustache@latest"></script>
    <script src="render.js"></script>
  </body>
 </html>
 ```

 ```js
 function loadUser() {
  var template = $('#template').html();
  Mustache.parse(template);   // optional, speeds up future uses
  var rendered = Mustache.render(template, {name: "Luke"});
  $('#target').html(rendered);
 }
 ```

 #### Load External Templates

 If your templates reside in individual files, you can load them asynchronously and render them when they arrive. Another example using `jQuery`:
 If your templates reside in individual files, you can load them asynchronously and render them when they arrive. Another example using [fetch](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch):

 ```js
 function loadUser() {
  $.get('template.mst', function(template) {
    var rendered = Mustache.render(template, {name: "Luke"});
    $('#target').html(rendered);
 function renderHello() {
  fetch('template.mustache').then(function (template) {
    var template = document.getElementById('template').innerHTML;
    var rendered = Mustache.render(template, { name: 'Luke' });
    document.getElementById('target').innerHTML = rendered;    
  });
 }
 ```