SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'export'

What's going wrong?

export default class Tools {
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'export'
at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:352:18)
at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1025:15)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1059:27)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1124:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:816:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19)
at Module.Hook._require.Module.require (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/require-in-the-middle/index.js:80:39)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:93:18)
at Object. (/Users/rox/Projects/CrimeTimeApi/models/Case.js:4:15)

How could we reproduce this issue?

I have a class named Tools declared as

export default class Tools {
.
.
.
}

Supporting information

I can run the app alone without the -i max option but if i use the -i max option, it gives me the above stated error.

$ pm2 report

Start by reproducing the failure with the reported Tools class in models/Case.js and PM2's -i max option, then compare it with running the app without that option. Use the available pm2 report output to identify the relevant PM2 and Node.js versions; done means the same application starts successfully in both modes without the export syntax error.