Improve frontend development setup instructions (#171)

* Improve frontend development setup instructions

- Currently you recommend cloning the `home-assistant-polymer` repository directly. I assume you should instruct people to fork it, like you do in the [development environment documentation](https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/development_environment.html)
- I had some trouble setting `development_repo` in macOS, I believe a trailing slash was necessary in the path. Have updated to a realistic macOS example path

* Link to Getting Started instead of macOS install instructions

* Revert comment change

* Change link to Installation Guide

* Adjust link to point to dev setup docs
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Alec Rust 2019-01-29 18:07:57 +00:00 committed by Paulus Schoutsen
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### Getting the code
First step is to git clone the [home-assistant-polymer repository][hass-polymer]. You can place the repository anywhere on your system.
First step is to fork the [home-assistant-polymer repository][hass-polymer] and add the upstream remote. You can place the forked repository anywhere on your system.
```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer.git
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GIT_USERNAME/home-assistant-polymer.git
$ cd home-assistant-polymer
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/home-assistant-polymer/home-assistant-polymer.git
```
### Configuring Home Assistant
You will need to have an instance of Home Assistant set up. See our guide on [setting up a development environment](https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/development_environment.html).
Next step is to configure Home Assistant to use the development mode for the frontend. Do this by updating the frontend config in your `configuration.yaml` and set the path to the home-assistant-polymer repository that you cloned in the last step:
```yaml