React Native equivalent of React.createElement

Question

When looking at React, specifically React (Virtual) DOM terminology I am wondering whether there is an equivalent for React Native, or rather, how this can be modified for use with Native?

I am wanting to compose a view, it consists of a <Text> <TouchableHighlight> <TouchableHighlight> . The two <TouchableHighlight>elements will increment and decrement a counter (the <Text> label).

Is there a way I can perhaps pass these are parameters into a function similar to React.createElement that will return a view with these elements in?

Answer 1

createElement is also available on React Native. So you can do:

var textElem = React.createElement(Text, [], ['Hello world']);

You must supply a ReactClass as first parameter, strings are not allowed as the first parameter in React Native since those are meant to be used for html tags in regular React.