issue with ts-node on Windows

[leolivier]

What's going wrong?

When running pm2 start with a ts-node script on Windows 10, I get an error inside ts-node. I don't have the issue when running the ts-node command directly from a Powershell

How could we reproduce this issue?

My ecosystem contains:

module.exports = {
  apps : [{
    name: 'pier-admin-development',
    script: './node_modules/.bin/ts-node-dev',
    watch: '.',
    exec_mode: 'fork',
    args: '--files ./src/main.ts',
    max_memory_restart: '150M',
    time: true, // add time to logs
  }]
};

Running pm2 start gives:

[PM2][WARN] Applications pier-admin-development not running, starting...
[PM2] App [pier-admin-development] launched (1 instances)
┌─────┬───────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id  │ name                      │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├─────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0   │ pier-admin-development    │ default     │ 1.0.0   │ fork    │ 2248     │ 0      │ 1    │ stopped   │ 0%       │ 0b       │ olivi    │ enabled  │
└─────┴───────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

(status=stopped and not errored) and pm2 logs:

PS D:\devts\pier\pier-admin-develop> pm2 logs
[TAILING] Tailing last 15 lines for [all] processes (change the value with --lines option)
C:\Users\olivi\.pm2\logs\pier-admin-development-out.log last 15 lines:
C:\Users\olivi\.pm2\logs\pier-admin-development-error.log last 15 lines:
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32: D:\devts\pier\pier-admin-develop\node_modules\.bin\ts-node-dev:2
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32: basedir=$(dirname "$(echo "$0" | sed -e 's,\\,/,g')")
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:           ^^^^^^^
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32: SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:979:16)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:27)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\olivi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\ProcessContainerFork.js:33:23)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
0|pier-adm | 2021-01-16T17:31:32:     at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)

but running directly D:\devts\pier\pier-admin-develop\node_modules\.bin\ts-node-dev --files ./src/main.ts works fine...
EDIT: The same config works on Linux (Ubuntu & Raspbian)

Supporting information

--- PM2 report ----------------------------------------------------------------
Date                 : Sat Jan 16 2021 17:52:49 GMT+0100 (heure normale d’Europe centrale)
===============================================================================
--- Daemon -------------------------------------------------
pm2d version         : 4.5.0
node version         : 14.15.0
node path            : not found
argv                 : C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe,C:\Users\olivi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\Daemon.js
argv0                : node
user                 : undefined
uid                  : N/A
gid                  : N/A
uptime               : 46min
===============================================================================
--- CLI ----------------------------------------------------
local pm2            : 4.5.0
node version         : 14.15.0
node path            : not found
argv                 : C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe,C:\Users\olivi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\bin\pm2,report
argv0                : C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe
user                 : olivi
===============================================================================
--- System info --------------------------------------------
arch                 : x64
platform             : win32
type                 : Windows_NT
cpus                 : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
cpus nb              : 8
freemem              : 1679581184
totalmem             : 16953622528
home                 : C:\Users\olivi
===============================================================================
--- PM2 list -----------------------------------------------
┌─────┬───────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id  │ name                      │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├─────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0   │ pier-admin-development    │ default     │ 1.0.0   │ fork    │ 0        │ 0      │ 15   │ errored   │ 0%       │ 0b       │ olivi    │ enabled  │
└─────┴───────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
===============================================================================
--- Daemon logs --------------------------------------------

(I looked at #2675 but does not seem to be related)

[leolivier]

Got it: it's a matter of interpreter. The interperter is guessed automatically on Linux, not on Windows.
Furthermore, ts-node is a shell script ==> you must guess what is your shell interpreter in powershell.
I found one and added it in the ecosystem file:
interpreter: "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe",
then it worked but there's a big drawback: I can't get that working on Linux anymore (prod envt).
And I don't understand why ts-node runs in a powershell terminal (it doesn't know the git shell)
Is there a way to define the interpreter differently depending on the OS ?