diff --git a/Examples/GetHTML/GetHTML.swift b/Examples/GetHTML/GetHTML.swift
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+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This source file is part of the AsyncHTTPClient open source project
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2022 Apple Inc. and the AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+// Licensed under Apache License v2.0
+//
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information
+// See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for the list of AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+import AsyncHTTPClient
+import NIOCore
+
+@main
+struct GetHTML {
+    static func main() async throws {
+        let httpClient = HTTPClient(eventLoopGroupProvider: .createNew)
+        do {
+            let request = HTTPClientRequest(url: "https://apple.com")
+            let response = try await httpClient.execute(request, timeout: .seconds(30))
+            print("HTTP head", response)
+            let body = try await response.body.collect(upTo: 1024 * 1024) // 1 MB
+            print(String(buffer: body))
+        } catch {
+            print("request failed:", error)
+        }
+        // it is important to shutdown the httpClient after all requests are done, even if one failed
+        try await httpClient.shutdown()
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Examples/GetJSON/GetJSON.swift b/Examples/GetJSON/GetJSON.swift
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+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This source file is part of the AsyncHTTPClient open source project
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2022 Apple Inc. and the AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+// Licensed under Apache License v2.0
+//
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information
+// See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for the list of AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+import AsyncHTTPClient
+import Foundation
+import NIOCore
+import NIOFoundationCompat
+
+struct Comic: Codable {
+    var num: Int
+    var title: String
+    var day: String
+    var month: String
+    var year: String
+    var img: String
+    var alt: String
+    var news: String
+    var link: String
+    var transcript: String
+}
+
+@main
+struct GetJSON {
+    static func main() async throws {
+        let httpClient = HTTPClient(eventLoopGroupProvider: .createNew)
+        do {
+            let request = HTTPClientRequest(url: "https://xkcd.com/info.0.json")
+            let response = try await httpClient.execute(request, timeout: .seconds(30))
+            print("HTTP head", response)
+            let body = try await response.body.collect(upTo: 1024 * 1024) // 1 MB
+            // we use an overload defined in `NIOFoundationCompat` for `decode(_:from:)` to
+            // efficiently decode from a `ByteBuffer`
+            let comic = try JSONDecoder().decode(Comic.self, from: body)
+            dump(comic)
+        } catch {
+            print("request failed:", error)
+        }
+        // it is important to shutdown the httpClient after all requests are done, even if one failed
+        try await httpClient.shutdown()
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Examples/Package.swift b/Examples/Package.swift
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+// swift-tools-version:5.5
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This source file is part of the AsyncHTTPClient open source project
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Apple Inc. and the AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+// Licensed under Apache License v2.0
+//
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information
+// See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for the list of AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+import PackageDescription
+
+let package = Package(
+    name: "async-http-client-examples",
+    platforms: [
+        .macOS(.v10_15),
+        .iOS(.v13),
+        .tvOS(.v13),
+        .watchOS(.v6),
+    ],
+    products: [
+        .executable(name: "GetHTML", targets: ["GetHTML"]),
+        .executable(name: "GetJSON", targets: ["GetJSON"]),
+        .executable(name: "StreamingByteCounter", targets: ["StreamingByteCounter"]),
+    ],
+    dependencies: [
+        .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio.git", .branch("main")),
+
+        // in real-world projects this would be
+        // .package(url: "https://github.com/swift-server/async-http-client.git", from: "1.9.0")
+        .package(name: "async-http-client", path: "../"),
+    ],
+    targets: [
+        // MARK: - Examples
+
+        .executableTarget(
+            name: "GetHTML",
+            dependencies: [
+                .product(name: "AsyncHTTPClient", package: "async-http-client"),
+                .product(name: "NIOCore", package: "swift-nio"),
+            ], path: "GetHTML"
+        ),
+        .executableTarget(
+            name: "GetJSON",
+            dependencies: [
+                .product(name: "AsyncHTTPClient", package: "async-http-client"),
+                .product(name: "NIOCore", package: "swift-nio"),
+                .product(name: "NIOFoundationCompat", package: "swift-nio"),
+            ], path: "GetJSON"
+        ),
+        .executableTarget(
+            name: "StreamingByteCounter",
+            dependencies: [
+                .product(name: "AsyncHTTPClient", package: "async-http-client"),
+                .product(name: "NIOCore", package: "swift-nio"),
+            ], path: "StreamingByteCounter"
+        ),
+    ]
+)
diff --git a/Examples/README.md b/Examples/README.md
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+# Examples
+This folder includes a couple of Examples for `AsyncHTTPClient`. 
+You can run them by opening the `Package.swift` in this folder through Xcode.
+In Xcode you can then select the scheme for the example you want run e.g. `GetHTML`.
+
+You can also run the examples from the command line by executing the follow command in this folder:
+```
+swift run GetHTML
+```
+To run other examples you can just replace `GetHTML` with the name of the example you want to run.
+
+## [GetHTML](./GetHTML/GetHTML.swift)
+
+This examples sends a HTTP GET request to `https://apple.com/` and first `await`s and `print`s the HTTP Response Head. 
+Afterwards it buffers the full response body in memory and prints the response as a `String`.    
+
+## [GetJSON](./GetJSON/GetJSON.swift)
+
+This examples sends a HTTP GET request to `https://xkcd.com/info.0.json` and first `await`s and `print`s the HTTP Response Head. 
+Afterwards it buffers the full response body in memory, decodes the buffer using a `JSONDecoder` and `dump`s the decoded response. 
+
+## [StreamingByteCounter](./StreamingByteCounter/StreamingByteCounter.swift)
+
+This examples sends a HTTP GET request to `https://apple.com/` and first `await`s and `print`s the HTTP Response Head. 
+Afterwards it asynchronously iterates over all body fragments, counts the received bytes and prints a progress indicator (if the server send a content-length header).
+At the end the total received bytes are printed.
+Note that we drop all received fragment and therefore do **not** buffer the whole response body in-memory.
diff --git a/Examples/StreamingByteCounter/StreamingByteCounter.swift b/Examples/StreamingByteCounter/StreamingByteCounter.swift
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+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This source file is part of the AsyncHTTPClient open source project
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2022 Apple Inc. and the AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+// Licensed under Apache License v2.0
+//
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information
+// See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for the list of AsyncHTTPClient project authors
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+import AsyncHTTPClient
+import NIOCore
+
+@main
+struct StreamingByteCounter {
+    static func main() async throws {
+        let httpClient = HTTPClient(eventLoopGroupProvider: .createNew)
+        do {
+            let request = HTTPClientRequest(url: "https://apple.com")
+            let response = try await httpClient.execute(request, timeout: .seconds(30))
+            print("HTTP head", response)
+
+            // if defined, the content-length headers announces the size of the body
+            let expectedBytes = response.headers.first(name: "content-length").flatMap(Int.init)
+
+            var receivedBytes = 0
+            // asynchronously iterates over all body fragments
+            // this loop will automatically propagate backpressure correctly
+            for try await buffer in response.body {
+                // For this example, we are just interested in the size of the fragment
+                receivedBytes += buffer.readableBytes
+
+                if let expectedBytes = expectedBytes {
+                    // if the body size is known, we calculate a progress indicator
+                    let progress = Double(receivedBytes) / Double(expectedBytes)
+                    print("progress: \(Int(progress * 100))%")
+                }
+            }
+            print("did receive \(receivedBytes) bytes")
+        } catch {
+            print("request failed:", error)
+        }
+        // it is important to shutdown the httpClient after all requests are done, even if one failed
+        try await httpClient.shutdown()
+    }
+}