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A slot can be seen as a part, element or a 'property' of an object. Say you have a car object, then you can have the slots 'price', 'number of doors', 'type of engine', 'mileage'. Internally, that is represented a list. Storing value references in slots instead of dict. Denying dict and weakref creation if parent classes deny them and you declare slots. Small caveat, you should only declare a particular slot one time in an inheritance tree. VR Slots: These are the newest is the online gaming industry. By using special VR (Virtual Reality) glasses, you can be part of the action and fight for prizes. Some of the good examples of VR slots are Dracula’s Family from Belka VR and Necromancer from Evoplay Entertainment.

Overview

Summary

Visitors increasingly want to engage with our sites and brands. This slot machine gives the perfect way for your visitors to do that with little effort or cost to you or your company. On top of that it increases customer loyalty, returning to the site to continue to play! We've seen a huge variety of companies use this to great success. Imagination really is the only limit!

Have your own HTML5, pure Javascript slot machine on your site! In a recent survey, 74% of users said the well finished game contributed “moderately or significantly” to the fun of the site.

Packages provide a license for you to use this slot machine on all your sites. You can mix it up and customize your slot machine with the 5 different pre-set designs provided, or you can very easily make your own.

Written in pure HTML 5, Javascript, jQuery and CSS it is extremely quick and simple to integrate into any new or existing site. Proven to work flawlessly on mobiles and tablet (including Android, iOS and Windows Phone), your visitors can enjoy this feature at any time and there is no use of Flash or Java, so no annoying pop ups to distract your visitors from what you want them to focus on!

Some interesting uses and ideas for your slot machine

These are some of the imaginative uses our customers have given their slot machine. Get your creative juices flowing!

  • Encourage spending in your store giving people a chance to win discounts, prizes and promotions.
  • Give credits away as virtual game currency, or virtual goods in those games, when users level up, or find a chest, for example.
  • Give customers a chance to win a discount at the time of checkout, in your online store.
  • Use it together with physical scratchcards to give people prizes in a loyalty program.
  • Set up a spot at events with several games to entertain guests.
  • Add casino-style games to your site, to increase customer engagement.
  • Create a buzz at a convention, letting visitors play and win merchandise items (t-shirts and hats, for example). Change the odds heavily so that almost everyone wins.

Features

  • 5 designs included, immediately ready to use.
  • Fully customizable. You can very easily change the images, sounds, animations, pay table, and prizes to suit your needs.
  • Completely responsive to every resolution and device. Works on every browser.
  • You can offer either monetary prizes, or physical gifts like hats, t-shirts, or store credit for your site, to improve your brand and keep customers coming back!
  • 100% HTML, CSS3 and Javascript code, based on jQuery. Does not use Java or Flash, ensuring compatibility with all mobile devices.
  • Smooth jQuery animation.
  • Cheat and fraud prevention measures to avoid getting fraudulent complaints from your customers.
  • Over 10 million spins to date, resulting in millions of dollars in profits for the different sites that host it. On a monthly average, there's about one spin every 5 seconds.

Package

The package includes the full source code for the entire slot machine, including HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP code. It also includes extensive documentation on how to implement the slots in your own site, and how to customize every element of it, in case you want to.

Only a very, very basic knowledge of PHP and CSS is necessary to add this to your site. If you don't have your own programmers, or don't feel comfortable doing it, we can do this for you for a fee.

We also offer a custom-design option for an extra fee, in which we get you in contact with our graphics designer, and you get the design that you need, ready to plug into your site.

Buy this slot machine today, or contact us with any questions.

F.A.Q.

  • Can I change the icons to my products / company logo?Open or Close

    Yes, all the images you see can be directly replaced for anything you would like, by simply changing the files provided.

  • Can I customize the odds of winning / the game's payout / my profit margin?Open or Close

    Yes, all the probabilities are 100% configurable when setting up the prizes for the game. This is explained in detail in the documentation, including examples to make it as easy as possible.

  • Can I use this slot machine in my Wordpress site?Open or Close

    Yes, it's quite easy to integrate this into Wordpress by simply modifying the site templates to add the HTML code, and then adding the extra CSS and JS file. Quick and simple!

  • Can anyone implement this?Open or Close

    A very minimal knowledge of PHP and CSS is needed to implement this on your site. Any junior programmer can do it. Alternatively, you can hire us to do it for you, for a very small additional fee.

  • Is it a one-time payment?Open or Close

    Yes, a one time payment of the license fee gives you our full source code, and allows you to use the slot machine in as many sites as you own.

  • How can I customize this slot machine?Open or Close

    You can very easily change everything that your visitors will see about the slot machine. All images and sounds, the pay table configuration, maximum and minimum bets, payouts, the details of the animation, etc. The package you will buy includes extensive documentation on how to modify all of these, and our support team will also be able to help you and answer all your questions.

  • Can I have non-monetary payouts?Open or Close

    Yes, several of our customers use their slot machine to give out t-shits, hats, store credit, discount codes and more!

  • Can monetary payouts have cents?Open or Close

    Yes, you can have your payouts in entire dollars, quarters, cents, even Bitcoin fractions if you want.

  • Does it work with Bitcoin / Litecoin / other cryptocurrencies?Open or Close

    Yes! Basically, you can integrate this with any payment / credits mechanism you can think of, be it regular money, Bitcoin, tokens, anything!

  • Do I get the full source code?Open or Close

    You get absolutely everything, in full un-minified, non-obfuscated form. All the PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript, which you can modify as much as you wish, along with extensive documentation on how to do so.

What our previous customers say

'The customers love it'

We installed the slot machine software on our website about six months ago and could not be happier. It was super smooth and we have not had to return to Daniel even once with any problems - in fact not one of our customers has ever reported a problem with a spin which is amazing for a web based game. The integration was a snap and putting our own custom design into the machine was much easier then expected. We could not be happier with the entire experience and our customers love playing every day.

'Huge increase in customer engagement'

From start to finish Daniel was the perfect man for the job. We were setting up a fun virtual games website and communicated a few game ideas to Daniel. The animations were smooth, the games felt fast, and they were able to handle a large number of users.

Our customers were consistently thrilled with the way the games worked, and the games were a big success immediately after launch. In a recent survey 74% of users said the well finished games he programmed contributed 'moderately or significantly' to the fun of the site.

'Only took me about half an hour to integrate.'

I love your coding style, very organized and well documented. Only took me about half an hour to integrate with our systems, works great and our users are LOVING it!

'I highly recommend Daniel's work.'

I found Daniel to be an extremely knowledgeable and reliable developer who helped us integrate his games into our retail platform. Daniel made himself available for our questions and gave assistance whenever we requested.

I highly recommend Daniel's work to anyone who wishes to be successful the first time out. His insight is invaluable.

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'Very easy to customize, works in all browsers'

The slot machine is working really well – we haven't had any reports of problems from players, many of which are using tablets / smartphones.

The documentation was great and the code well laid out and self-explanatory making any customisations easy to add into the code..

'Very professional service'

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Slots are a powerful tool for creating reusable components in Vue.js, though they aren’t the simplest feature to understand. Let’s take a look at how to use slots and some examples of how they can be used in your Vue applications.

With the recent release of Vue 2.6, the syntax for using slots has been made more succinct. This change to slots has gotten me re-interested in discovering the potential power of slots to provide reusability, new features, and clearer readability to our Vue-based projects. What are slots truly capable of?

If you’re new to Vue or haven’t seen the changes from version 2.6, read on. Probably the best resource for learning about slots is Vue’s own documentation, but I’ll try to give a rundown here.

What Are Slots?

Slots are a mechanism for Vue components that allows you to compose your components in a way other than the strict parent-child relationship. Slots give you an outlet to place content in new places or make components more generic. The best way to understand them is to see them in action. Let’s start with a simple example:

This component has a wrapper div. Let’s pretend that div is there to create a stylistic frame around its content. This component is able to be used generically to wrap a frame around any content you want. Let’s see what it looks like to use it. The frame component here refers to the component we just made above.

The content that is between the opening and closing frame tags will get inserted into the frame component where the slot is, replacing the slot tags. This is the most basic way of doing it. You can also specify default content to go into a slot simply by filling it in:

So now if we use it like this instead:

The default text of “This is the default content if nothing gets specified to go here” will show up, but if we use it as we did before, the default text will be overridden by the img tag.

Multiple/Named Slots

You can add multiple slots to a component, but if you do, all but one of them is required to have a name. If there is one without a name, it is the default slot. Here’s how you create multiple slots:

We kept the same default slot, but this time we added a slot named header where you can enter a title. You use it like this:

Slot Sampler

Just like before, if we want to add content to the default slot, just put it directly inside the titled-frame component. To add content to a named slot, though, we needed to wrap the code in a template tag with a v-slot directive. You add a colon (:) after v-slot and then write the name of the slot you want the content to be passed to. Note that v-slot is new to Vue 2.6, so if you’re using an older version, you’ll need to read the docs about the deprecated slot syntax.

Scoped Slots

Time Slot Examples

One more thing you’ll need to know is that slots can pass data/functions down to their children. To demonstrate this, we’ll need a completely different example component with slots, one that’s even more contrived than the previous one: let’s sorta copy the example from the docs by creating a component that supplies the data about the current user to its slots:

This component has a property called user with details about the user. By default, the component shows the user’s last name, but note that it is using v-bind to bind the user data to the slot. With that, we can use this component to provide the user data to its descendant:

To get access to the data passed to the slot, we specify the name of the scope variable with the value of the v-slot directive.

There are a few notes to take here:

  • We specified the name of default, though we don’t need to for the default slot. Instead we could just use v-slot='slotProps'.
  • You don’t need to use slotProps as the name. You can call it whatever you want.
  • If you’re only using a default slot, you can skip that inner template tag and put the v-slot directive directly onto the current-user tag.
  • You can use object destructuring to create direct references to the scoped slot data rather than using a single variable name. In other words, you can use v-slot='{user}' instead of v-slot='slotProps' and then you can use user directly instead of slotProps.user.

Taking those notes into account, the above example can be rewritten like this:

A couple more things to keep in mind:

  • You can bind more than one value with v-bind directives. So in the example, I could have done more than just user.
  • You can pass functions to scoped slots too. Many libraries use this to provide reusable functional components as you’ll see later.
  • v-slot has an alias of #. So instead of writing v-slot:header='data', you can write #header='data'. You can also just specify #header instead of v-slot:header when you’re not using scoped slots. As for default slots, you’ll need to specify the name of default when you use the alias. In other words, you’ll need to write #default='data' instead of #='data'.

There are a few more minor points you can learn about from the docs, but that should be enough to help you understand what we’re talking about in the rest of this article.

What Can You Do With Slots?

Slots weren’t built for a single purpose, or at least if they were, they’ve evolved way beyond that original intention to be a powerhouse tool for doing many different things.

Reusable Patterns

Components were always designed to be able to be reused, but some patterns aren’t practical to enforce with a single “normal” component because the number of props you’ll need in order to customize it can be excessive or you’d need to pass large sections of content and potentially other components through the props. Slots can be used to encompass the “outside” part of the pattern and allow other HTML and/or components to placed inside of them to customize the “inside” part, allowing the component with slots to define the pattern and the components injected into the slots to be unique.

For our first example, let’s start with something simple: a button. Imagine you and your team are using Bootstrap*. With Bootstrap, your buttons are often strapped with the base `btn` class and a class specifying the color, such as `btn-primary`. You can also add a size class, such as `btn-lg`.

Slot Example

* I neither encourage nor discourage you from doing this, I just needed something for my example and it’s pretty well known.

Let’s now assume, for simplicity’s sake that your app/site always uses btn-primary and btn-lg. You don’t want to always have to write all three classes on your buttons, or maybe you don’t trust a rookie to remember to do all three. In that case, you can create a component that automatically has all three of those classes, but how do you allow customization of the content? A prop isn’t practical because a button tag is allowed to have all kinds of HTML in it, so we should use a slot.

Now we can use it everywhere with whatever content you want:

Of course, you can go with something much bigger than a button. Sticking with Bootstrap, let’s look at a modal, or least the HTML part; I won’t be going into functionality… yet.

Now, let’s use this:

The above type of use case for slots is obviously very useful, but it can do even more.

Reusing Functionality

Slot Example Jsfiddle

Vue components aren’t all about the HTML and CSS. They’re built with JavaScript, so they’re also about functionality. Slots can be useful for creating functionality once and using it in multiple places. Let’s go back to our modal example and add a function that closes the modal:

Now when you use this component, you can add a button to the footer that can close the modal. Normally, in the case of a Bootstrap modal, you could just add data-dismiss='modal' to a button, but we want to hide Bootstrap specific things away from the components that will be slotting into this modal component. So we pass them a function they can call and they are none the wiser about Bootstrap’s involvement:

Renderless Components

And finally, you can take what you know about using slots to pass around reusable functionality and strip practically all of the HTML and just use the slots. That’s essentially what a renderless component is: a component that provides only functionality without any HTML.

Slot

Making components truly renderless can be a little tricky because you’ll need to write render functions rather than using a template in order to remove the need for a root element, but it may not always be necessary. Let’s take a look at a simple example that does let us use a template first, though:

This is an odd example of a renderless component because it doesn’t even have any JavaScript in it. That’s mostly because we’re just creating a pre-configured reusable version of a built-in renderless function: transition.

Slot Examples In A Sentence

Yup, Vue has built-in renderless components. This particular example is taken from an article on reusable transitions by Cristi Jora and shows a simple way to create a renderless component that can standardize the transitions used throughout your application. Cristi’s article goes into a lot more depth and shows some more advanced variations of reusable transitions, so I recommend checking it out.

For our other example, we’ll create a component that handles switching what is shown during the different states of a Promise: pending, successfully resolved, and failed. It’s a common pattern and while it doesn’t require a lot of code, it can muddy up a lot of your components if the logic isn’t pulled out for reusability.

So what is going on here? First, note that we are receiving a prop called promise that is a Promise. In the watch section we watch for changes to the promise and when it changes (or immediately on component creation thanks to the immediate property) we clear the state, and call then and catch on the promise, updating the state when it either finishes successfully or fails.

Then, in the template, we show a different slot based on the state. Note that we failed to keep it truly renderless because we needed a root element in order to use a template. We’re passing data and error to the relevant slot scopes as well.

And here’s an example of it being used:

We pass in somePromise to the renderless component. While we’re waiting for it to finish, we’re displaying “Working on it…” thanks to the pending slot. If it succeeds we display “Resolved:” and the resolution value. If it fails we display “Rejected:” and the error that caused the rejection. Now we no longer need to track the state of the promise within this component because that part is pulled out into its own reusable component.

So, what can we do about that span wrapping around the slots in promised.vue? To remove it, we’ll need to remove the template portion and add a render function to our component:

There isn’t anything too tricky going on here. We’re just using some if blocks to find the state and then returning the correct scoped slot (via this.$scopedSlots['SLOTNAME'](...)) and passing the relevant data to the slot scope. When you’re not using a template, you can skip using the .vue file extension by pulling the JavaScript out of the script tag and just plunking it into a .js file. This should give you a very slight performance bump when compiling those Vue files.

This example is a stripped-down and slightly tweaked version of vue-promised, which I would recommend over using the above example because they cover over some potential pitfalls. There are plenty of other great examples of renderless components out there too. Baleada is an entire library full of renderless components that provide useful functionality like this. There’s also vue-virtual-scroller for controlling the rendering of list item based on what is visible on the screen or PortalVue for “teleporting” content to completely different parts of the DOM.

I’m Out

Vue’s slots take component-based development to a whole new level, and while I’ve demonstrated a lot of great ways slots can be used, there are countless more out there. What great idea can you think of? What ways do you think slots could get an upgrade? If you have any, make sure to bring your ideas to the Vue team. God bless and happy coding.

(dm, il)