This summary provides a concise overview of creating a protected API using GraphQL, Couchbase, and JSON web tokens (JWT) in a Node.js application. The goal is to demonstrate how to use JWT for authorization and restrict access to certain data points while still allowing other data points to be accessible without authentication. The tutorial covers setting up the project dependencies, creating simple account API endpoints for login and registration, validating JWT tokens with an Express Framework function, and developing a partially protected API with GraphQL queries that incorporate JWT validation. Key takeaways include accessing request data in the GraphQL context variable, separating JWT creation from GraphQL mutations, and restricting queries as well as data properties with JWT.