diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 71d7330..2dfc284 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -52,5 +52,14 @@
         "platform": {
             "php": "7.0.0"
         }
+    },
+    "scripts": {
+        "check": [
+            "@cs",
+            "@test"
+        ],
+        "cs": "PHP_CS_FIXER_IGNORE_ENV=1 php-cs-fixer fix -v --diff --dry-run",
+        "cs-fix": "PHP_CS_FIXER_IGNORE_ENV=1 php-cs-fixer fix -v --diff",
+        "test": "@php -dzend.assertions=1 -dassert.exception=1 ./vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-text"
     }
 }
diff --git a/examples/gzip-compress.php b/examples/gzip-compress.php
index c45279b..f96feb2 100644
--- a/examples/gzip-compress.php
+++ b/examples/gzip-compress.php
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 <?php
 
-use Amp\ByteStream\ResourceInputStream;
-use Amp\ByteStream\ResourceOutputStream;
 use Amp\ByteStream\ZlibOutputStream;
 use Amp\Loop;
+use function Amp\ByteStream\getStdin;
+use function Amp\ByteStream\getStdout;
 
-require __DIR__ . "/../vendor/autoload.php";
+require __DIR__."/../vendor/autoload.php";
 
 Loop::run(function () {
-    $stdin = new ResourceInputStream(STDIN);
-    $stdout = new ResourceOutputStream(STDOUT);
+    $stdin = getStdin();
+    $stdout = getStdout();
 
     $gzout = new ZlibOutputStream($stdout, ZLIB_ENCODING_GZIP);
 
diff --git a/examples/gzip-decompress.php b/examples/gzip-decompress.php
index 267daec..d8cc323 100644
--- a/examples/gzip-decompress.php
+++ b/examples/gzip-decompress.php
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 <?php
 
-use Amp\ByteStream\ResourceInputStream;
-use Amp\ByteStream\ResourceOutputStream;
 use Amp\ByteStream\ZlibInputStream;
 use Amp\Loop;
+use function Amp\ByteStream\getStdin;
+use function Amp\ByteStream\getStdout;
 
-require __DIR__ . "/../vendor/autoload.php";
+require __DIR__."/../vendor/autoload.php";
 
 Loop::run(function () {
-    $stdin = new ResourceInputStream(STDIN);
-    $stdout = new ResourceOutputStream(STDOUT);
+    $stdin = getStdin();
+    $stdout = getStdout();
 
     $gzin = new ZlibInputStream($stdin, ZLIB_ENCODING_GZIP);
 
diff --git a/examples/readline-echo.php b/examples/readline-echo.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b37ac0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/readline-echo.php
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?php
+
+use Amp\Loop;
+use function Amp\ByteStream\bufferEcho;
+use function Amp\ByteStream\prompt;
+
+require __DIR__ . "/../vendor/autoload.php";
+
+Loop::run(function () {
+    yield bufferEcho("Hello from async PHP!\n");
+    $question = yield prompt("What is your question? ");
+    yield bufferEcho("I see your question is $question.\n");
+    yield bufferEcho("\nUnfortunately, I'm just a small script and I can't answer that, feel free to contact us at #amphp on freenode though!\n\n");
+    yield bufferEcho("Bye!\n\n");
+});
diff --git a/lib/functions.php b/lib/functions.php
index 434aef3..16f6583 100644
--- a/lib/functions.php
+++ b/lib/functions.php
@@ -121,6 +121,25 @@ function getStdin(): ResourceInputStream
     return $stream;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Get LineReader instance associated with STDIN.
+ *
+ * @return LineReader
+ */
+function getStdinLineReader(): LineReader
+{
+    static $key = LineReader::class . '\\stdin';
+
+    $stream = Loop::getState($key);
+
+    if (!$stream) {
+        $stream = new LineReader(getStdin());
+        Loop::setState($key, $stream);
+    }
+
+    return $stream;
+}
+
 /**
  * The STDOUT stream for the process associated with the currently active event loop.
  *
@@ -159,6 +178,37 @@ function getStderr(): ResourceOutputStream
     return $stream;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Buffered async version of the readline() function.
+ *
+ * Please note that this function will hungrily eat data from stdin,
+ * buffering data even after the first newline.
+ * Use getStdinLineReader()->getBuffer() to obtain the remaining buffered data.
+ *
+ * @param string $prompt Optional prompt to print to console
+ *
+ * @return \Amp\Promise Will resolve with the read line
+ */
+function prompt(string $prompt = ''): Promise
+{
+    return call(static function () use ($prompt) {
+        if ($prompt) {
+            yield getStdout()->write($prompt);
+        }
+        return getStdinLineReader()->readLine();
+    });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Simple wrapper function to asynchronously write a string to the PHP output buffer.
+ *
+ * @param string $string
+ * @return Promise
+ */
+function bufferEcho($string): Promise
+{
+    return getOutputBufferStream()->write($string);
+}
 function parseLineDelimitedJson(InputStream $stream, bool $assoc = false, int $depth = 512, int $options = 0): Iterator
 {
     return new Producer(static function (callable $emit) use ($stream, $assoc, $depth, $options) {
diff --git a/test/ResourceOutputStreamTest.php b/test/ResourceOutputStreamTest.php
index e186e12..25a33c5 100644
--- a/test/ResourceOutputStreamTest.php
+++ b/test/ResourceOutputStreamTest.php
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 
 use Amp\ByteStream\ResourceOutputStream;
 use Amp\ByteStream\StreamException;
+use Amp\Loop;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+use function Amp\ByteStream\bufferEcho;
 use function Amp\Promise\wait;
 
 class ResourceOutputStreamTest extends TestCase
@@ -66,4 +68,22 @@ public function testClosedRemoteSocket()
         wait($stream->write("foobar"));
         wait($stream->write("foobar"));
     }
+
+    public function testEcho()
+    {
+        Loop::run(function () {
+            $data = "\n".\base64_encode(\random_bytes(10))."\n";
+            $found = false;
+            \ob_start(static function ($match) use (&$found, $data) {
+                if ($match === $data) {
+                    $found = true;
+                    return '';
+                }
+                return $match;
+            });
+            yield bufferEcho($data);
+            \ob_end_flush();
+            $this->assertTrue($found, "Data wasn't sent to the output buffer");
+        });
+    }
 }