Creating 'Div' and 'Span' Components in React Native

Question

I have seen in various forums claims that using "View" in React Native is a quasi equivalent of using a 'div' in React.

While I understand the reasoning for the View component (who wants to support all of the 'div' options?) it seems that a component that can handle most of the reasonable 'div' and 'span' attributes could be made so that porting React to React native is not such tedious chore.

Does anyone have such components that they have tested and can share? All the issues about style support, mapping event and mapping children seem to be repetitive for nearly everyone jumping into React Native.

Something like

class Div extends Component {  //or Class Span extends Component

  static propTypes = {
    style : PropTypes.obj
    onClick : PropTypes.func   // ...
  }

  render (){
    return (
      <View>
      {
        /* whatever is needed to pass everything through  ... */
      }
      </View>
  }
}

Answer 1

While I agree 100% with the answer of @nbkhope, I see that the answer @LostInSpace is looking for is a drop in replacement for an HTML <div>

This appears to be such a thing : https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-div