function instantiateReactComponent(node) {
  var instance;

  if (node === null || node === false) {
    instance = new ReactEmptyComponent(instantiateReactComponent);
  } else if (typeof node === 'object') {
    var element = node;
    !(element && (typeof element.type === 'function' || typeof element.type === 'string')) ? "development" !== 'production' ? invariant(false, 'Element type is invalid: expected a string (for built-in components) ' + 'or a class/function (for composite components) but got: %s.%s', element.type == null ? element.type : typeof element.type, getDeclarationErrorAddendum(element._owner)) : invariant(false) : undefined;

    // Special case string values
    if (typeof element.type === 'string') {
      instance = ReactNativeComponent.createInternalComponent(element);
    } else if (isInternalComponentType(element.type)) {
      // This is temporarily available for custom components that are not string
      // representations. I.e. ART. Once those are updated to use the string
      // representation, we can drop this code path.
      instance = new element.type(element);
    } else {
      instance = new ReactCompositeComponentWrapper();
    }
  } else if (typeof node === 'string' || typeof node === 'number') {
    instance = ReactNativeComponent.createInstanceForText(node);
  } else {
    !false ? "development" !== 'production' ? invariant(false, 'Encountered invalid React node of type %s', typeof node) : invariant(false) : undefined;
  }

  if ("development" !== 'production') {
    "development" !== 'production' ? warning(typeof instance.construct === 'function' && typeof instance.mountComponent === 'function' && typeof instance.receiveComponent === 'function' && typeof instance.unmountComponent === 'function', 'Only React Components can be mounted.') : undefined;
  }

  // Sets up the instance. This can probably just move into the constructor now.
  instance.construct(node);

  // These two fields are used by the DOM and ART diffing algorithms
  // respectively. Instead of using expandos on components, we should be
  // storing the state needed by the diffing algorithms elsewhere.
  instance._mountIndex = 0;
  instance._mountImage = null;

  if ("development" !== 'production') {
    instance._isOwnerNecessary = false;
    instance._warnedAboutRefsInRender = false;
  }

  // Internal instances should fully constructed at this point, so they should
  // not get any new fields added to them at this point.
  if ("development" !== 'production') {
    if (Object.preventExtensions) {
      Object.preventExtensions(instance);
    }
  }

  return instance;
}
Given a ReactNode, create an instance that will actually be mounted.

@param {ReactNode} node
@return {object} A new instance of the element's constructor.
@protected