Conditionally deriving state is allowed #8033
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These docs are misleading. We do have an official API that relies on setting state in render. If we don't like it, we should come up with a more first-class API for this occasionally legit pattern. But the API is legit and supported.
This clarifies the docs to resolve the contradiction. Only unconditional setState in render is definitely disallowed. Conditional is more nuanced, as noted.