That is definitely the idea. That's why I try to add as many snippets as possible.

For the development ressources there aren't many, depends on what you wan to do.
Most of the time the README and googling the exact function name can lead up to some old articles which can give you an idea of what you're supposed to do.

https://github.com/steemit/steem-js

There's also https://developers.steem.io/ but it's kinda empty.