Need help running from ecosystem with adding tsconfig-paths/register to Node

What's going wrong?

I'm writing an ecosystem file for starting a compiled Typescript application and I'm having trouble finding the correct configuration.

Here's the starting call of my application from package.json's script which is actually working:

"cross-env TZ=utc NODE_ENV=development TS_NODE_PROJECT=tsconfig.server.json pm2 start node -- -r tsconfig-paths/register -r ts-node/register/transpile-only dist-srv/server/main.js"

I would like to move to an ecosystem file to support clustering. The current working ecosystem file is this:

{
  "apps": [
      {
          "name": "my-app",
          "script": "./node_modules/.bin/ts-node",
          "interpreter": "node",
          "args":"-r tsconfig-paths/register -r ts-node/register/transpile-only dist-srv/server/main.js",
          "watch": false,
          "instances": 2,
          "exec_mode": "cluster",
          "env": {
              "production": false,
              "TZ": "utc",
              "NODE_ENV": "development",
              "TS_NODE_PROJECT": "tsconfig.server.json"
          }
      }
  ]
}

My problem is that I have to use ts-node even though my files are available in compiled form. That's because I can't just add node to the scriptparam or remove the param entirely. And it would equally fail to add the start script (dist-srv/server/main.js) to script because it would then not be able to resolve the tsconfig paths I'm using.

I also tried using the node_args param instead of args but that didn't work either.

Could you give me some guidance what I could add to the script param to start node right away. Or maybe I missed some parameter constellation that would give it to work even with my start script in the script param?

Supporting information

$ pm2 report
pm2d version         : 4.4.0
node version         : 12.14.1
...
// let me know if you need more.

Start by reproducing the package.json command and the ecosystem configuration using PM2 4.4.0, comparing the script, args, and node_args parameters described in the issue. Trace PM2's ecosystem-file argument handling and document or test the supported way to launch dist-srv/server/main.js with the requested Node preload modules and clustering enabled.