packages/cli: added some development docs to the readme (#521)

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+## Development
+
+For local development the cli can be used directly, even from other packages in this repo. The `bin/backstage-cli` entrypoint contains a switch that will load the implementation from the `src` directory when executed inside this repo.
+
+To try out the `create-app` command locally, you can execute the following from the parent directory of this repo:
+
+```bash
+./backstage/packages/cli/bin/backstage-cli create-app
+```
+
 ## Documentation

 - [Backstage Readme](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/blob/master/README.md)