Arduino IDE library location

Question

I have Arduino project WiFiManager that uses ArduinoJson 5. ArduinoJson is installed in my system and project compiles fine:

I decided to move to VisualStudio Code IDE. For this reason I need to copy library ArduinoJson 5 from Arduino IDE. I found /Users/<username>/Documents/Arduino/ libraries in my Windows 10 machine. But there is no ArduinoJson 5 library. Where it is located?

Answer 1

From the Arduino manual:

https://www.arduino.cc/en/hacking/libraries

User-created libraries as of version 0017 go in a subdirectory of your default sketch directory. For example, on OSX, the new directory would be ~/Documents/Arduino/libraries/. On Windows, it would be My Documents\\Arduino\\libraries. To add your own library, create a new directory in the libraries directory with the name of your library. The folder should contain a C or C++ file with your code and a header file with your function and variable declarations. It will then appear in the Sketch | Import Library menu in the Arduino IDE.

Note: for users of versions previous to 0017, libraries belong in a subdirectory of the Arduino application directory: ARDUINO/lib/targets/libraries. For version 0017, the libraries directory was moved to make them more convenient to install and use.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Libraries

Please note: Arduino libraries are managed in three different places: inside the IDE installation folder, inside the core folder and in the libraries folder inside your sketchbook.

For cores refer to https://www.arduino.cc/en/guide/cores