React Native has been moving to give common modules common names across iOS and Android. That seems great, because it's easier to share code. I wonder why there isn't a simple set of wrappers for HTML widgets, using the React Native names, so you can also share code with web. Does this project do that?
It's the opposite - instead of React Native mapping HTML elements into appropriate native components, websites are just another platform target. You write your components using normal React Native components (Views, Text, ScrollView, etc.) and the `react-native-web` platform converts that into structurally (but not semantically) compatible HTML.
The nice thing is, this is how all platform targets work. It's the platform extension's responsibility to map React Native to their platform. In the case of layout mapping, this typically involves mapping to the `Yoga`[1] layout engine on that platform.