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I think it would be very handy to use this tool as loader for webpack.
for example:

        preLoaders: [
            {
                test: /\.json$/,
                loader: 'json_merger',
            }
        ],

So, it will be possible to generate .json from the pieces during the build.

But, webpack sends to the loader function only content and not path to the file.
So, how about to add one more public method (compile/generate/interpolate), which will take json, working context and will return the generated result.
for example:

var result = json_merger.compile(json, {
   context: __dirname + '/some/path';
});

I've created webpack loader based on your tool: https://github.com/kopach/json_merger-loader
And now I would like to update it to have an ability to auto recompile files if something got changes. To do so I would need to get somehow all touched files. For example, if fileA.json uses ./path/fileB.json which uses ./fileC.json and so on, I would like to have the list of next files with related to the main file fileA.json paths. In this case it would be like so:

['./path/fileB.json', './path/fileC.json']

Is there any chance to update json_merger to have such functionality? The interface I can imagine may look like this:

var merger = json_merger(json, {
   scope: '/some/path';
});

var paths = merger.getListOfTouchedFiles();
var result = merger.merge();

Is there a way to remove items from object or array?
Perhaps something along these lines:

animals.json

{
  "animals": ["dog", "cat", "lion"]
}

pets.json

{
  "@extends": "animals.json",
  "@subtract": ["animals"],
  "animals": ["tiger"]
}

json_merger pets.json

{
  "animals": ["dog", "cat"]
}