Publii - how to add menu directly in theme files

I needed to add a menu that cannot be made from the admin panel. Someday I may find a better way, but for now I just pasted it directly into the theme file. Right now I'm using the "Technews" theme.

Here:

publii\site_location\mysite\input\themes\technews\partials

I opened this file:

sidebar.hbs

Took the menu:

<section class="box">
            <h3 class="box__title">My Menu</h3>
            <ul class="tags">
                        <li>
                        <a href="https://link">link text</a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        <a href="https://link">link text</a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        <a href="https://link">link text</a>
                        </li>
            </ul>
</section>

And pasted it there, at the very bottom, before the closing tag

</div>

In this case, the menu will be at the very bottom of the sidebar.