# How Axess Intelligence Simplified Their Backend With Neon's Data API

DevFeed: [How Axess Intelligence Simplified Their Backend With Neon's Data API](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-axess-intelligence-simplified-their-backend-with-neon-s-data-api-5340.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-axess-intelligence-simplified-their-backend-with-neons-data-api>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2025-11-20T17:49:48Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [CRUD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/crud.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [auth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auth.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [token](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/token.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes how Axess Intelligence simplified the backend for its mobile rewards app by combining Neon's PostgREST-compatible Data API with Better Auth and Neon branching. The Data API handles CRUD operations and returns JSON, while Better Auth issues JWTs for authenticated requests. Separate branch-specific Data API URLs support production, development, and feature environments with lower maintenance overhead.

## Source excerpt

"We didn't want to spend unnecessary time writing CRUD logic or maintaining a backend. We just connected Better Auth and the Data API and started building. The best part: every Neon branch gets its own Data API URL" Mouaz Anan, Engineer at Axess Intelligence Axess Intelligence is...