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How to call Go WASM from a TypeScript React frontend?

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I am working on a web app with the following architecture:

The Go documentation on WASM say to use Go's JS support file, which I used in my HTML-only prototype of this app, in <script src="wasm_exec.js"></script> and to call it with

const go = new Go();
WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch("main.wasm"), go.importObject).then((result) => {
    go.run(result.instance);
});

in a <script> in the HTML.

However, now that I've ported the prototype frontend to React, I'm hitting the following snags:

How can I trigger my Go-compiled-to-WASM from my TypeScript/React?

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