Merging two object arrays?

1-defaultConfig.js

'post-types': [{
    type: 'article',
    name: 'Article',
    path: {
      template: 'app/templates/article.njk',
      post: '_posts/{{ published }}-{{ slug }}.md',
      file: 'images/{{ published }}/{{ slug }}/{{ filename }}',
      url: '{{ published }}/{{ slug }}'
    }
  }, {
    type: 'note',
    name: 'Note',
    path: {
      template: 'app/templates/note.njk',
      post: '_notes/{{ published }}-{{ slug }}.md',
      url: 'notes/{{ published }}/{{ slug }}'
    }
  }, {
    type: 'photo',
    name: 'Photo',
    path: {
      template: 'app/templates/photo.njk',
      post: '_photos/{{ published }}-{{ slug }}.md',
      file: 'images/{{ published }}/{{ slug }}/{{ filename }}',
      url: 'photos/{{ published }}/{{ slug }}'
    }
  }]

2-publicationConfig.js

'post-types': [{
    type: 'article',
    name: 'CUSTOM VALUE',
    path: {
      template: 'CUSTOM VALUE'
    }
  }, {
    type: 'note',
    path: {
      template: 'CUSTOM VALUE',
      post: 'CUSTOM VALUE',
      url: 'CUSTOM VALUE'
    }
  }]

3-combinedConfig.js

'post-types': [{
    type: 'article',
    name: 'CUSTOM VALUE',
    path: {
      template: 'CUSTOM VALUE',
      post: '_posts/{{ published }}-{{ slug }}.md',
      file: 'images/{{ published }}/{{ slug }}/{{ filename }}',
      url: '{{ published }}/{{ slug }}'
    }
  }, {
    type: 'note',
    name: 'Note',
    path: {
      template: 'CUSTOM VALUE',
      post: 'CUSTOM VALUE',
      url: 'CUSTOM VALUE'
    }
  }, {
    type: 'photo',
    name: 'Photo',
    path: {
      template: 'app/templates/photo.njk',
      post: '_photos/{{ published }}-{{ slug }}.md',
      file: 'images/{{ published }}/{{ slug }}/{{ filename }}',
      url: 'photos/{{ published }}/{{ slug }}'
    }
  }]

// this assumes you can import the JSON

var source = require("defaultConfig.js");
var override = require("publicationConfig.js");

function merge(source, destination) {
    Object.keys(source).forEach((key) => {
        if (typeof(source[key]) === "object") {
            if (typeof(destination[key]) === "undefined") {
                destination[key] = {};
            }
            merge(source[key], destination[key]);
        } else {
            destination[key] = source[key]; 
        }
    });
}

source.forEach((item) => {
    let overrideItem = override.filter(o => o.type === item.type);

    if (overrideItem.length === 1) {
        merge(overrideItem[0], item);
    }
});

source now contains the merged object array

Demo here https://codepen.io/adam-auckland/pen/zbrXzL

A friend recommended I use Lodash, and seeing as this is server-side code, that seemed like a good shout, with few if any downsides. So, with the help of Lodash, here’s the code I ended up with using unionBy:

combinedConfig = _.unionBy(publicationConfig, defaultConfig, 'type');