Working development setup

Hi all

I would like to contribute to the Camunda BPM project so I have been looking closer into the Camunda BPM sources.

I have looked at the readme’s from the webapps module and the cockpit modules and tried both of these, but I cannot quite get the setup I would like.
I run into various problems (some IntelliJ, some not) that suggest I am not during this the right way…

So my question is: how do I start a process engine with the REST API and the web apps (including Cockpit) running on top of it? (Just plain Maven / NPM / Spring…)
I would also like it the Modeler to be able to access the REST API and create deployments…

Thanks a lot.

BR
Michael