Is there a way to use clerk sdk to authenticate the user (using email and password)

[e-ramadani]

I have a scenario where I need to generate the session jwt token using the user's credentials (email and password). However, I don't want to explicitly send a request to the clerk sign in api. Is there a way to use the clerk sdk to handle this?

[jescalan]

https://github.com/orgs/clerk/discussions/3829