title: React Native equivalent of React.createElement
body: <p>When looking at React, specifically <a href="https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/glossary.html#react-elements" rel="noreferrer">React (Virtual) DOM terminology</a> I am wondering whether there is an equivalent for React Native, or rather, how this can be modified for use with Native?</p>
  
  <p>I am wanting to compose a view, it consists of a <code>&lt;Text&gt;</code> <code>&lt;TouchableHighlight&gt;</code> <code>&lt;TouchableHighlight&gt;</code> . The two <code>&lt;TouchableHighlight&gt;</code>elements will increment and decrement a counter (the <code>&lt;Text&gt;</code> label). </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way I can perhaps pass these are parameters into a function similar to <code>React.createElement</code> that will return a view with these elements in?</p>