Exploring React Library Related Questions on Stack Overflow: Answered vs. Unanswered
Vanesya Aura Ardity, Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho, Syful Islam

TL;DR
This study analyzes factors influencing the answerability of React-related questions on Stack Overflow, revealing attributes that increase or decrease response likelihood and examining the relationship between user reputation and question difficulty.
Contribution
It introduces a comprehensive quantitative analysis of question attributes affecting answerability and the correlation between user reputation and question difficulty in React-related queries.
Findings
Number of views and code snippets increase answerability
Comments, question length, and images decrease answerability
Higher user reputation correlates with more complex questions
Abstract
React is a popular JavaScript framework in modern web application development. Due to its high performance and efficiency, many developers use this framework. Although React library offers many advantages, it is not without its challenges. When using React library, developers often face problems where they often seek solutions through question-and-answer forums, such as Stack Overflow (SO). However, despite its high popularity, many React-related questions on SO remain unanswered. Thus, this study aims to analyze the factors associated with question answerability and difficulty levels of React-related questions on SO. To facilitate our study, Exploratory Data Analysis was applied to 534,820 questions, where they are filtered based on 23 React-related tags. We implemented a quantitative approach through text mining and statistical analysis. A logistic regression model was used to…
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