github issue

I also had the same issue, the workaround I found is to use pm2 start node -- . This way pm2 starts up node which starts your app. In my case I use . (Starts the main: entry in package.json), but I'm sure you can also use pm2 start node -- server.js or pm2 start npm -- start (I haven't tried these, but I don't see why they wouldn't work). I run a discord bot and for some reason if I add --watch it restarts my bot every time I do a command, this might be a side effect from using this work around. Although I can't be sure since I can't get my bot to run with pm2 start server.js. I've also tried to run pm2 start nodemon -- server.js as a workaround to the --watch issue but that throws a syntax error for: @ECHO off in the nodemon package