How to use conditional statement within child attribute of a Flutter Widget (Center Widget)

Question

So far whenever I needed to use a conditional statement within a Widget I have done the following (Using Center and Containers as simplified dummy examples):

Answer 1

For the record, Dart 2.3 added the ability to use if/else statements in Collection literals. This is now done the following way:

return Column(children: [
  Text("hello"),
  if (condition)
     Text("should not render if false"),
  Text("world")
],);

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