JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<a href="#"><img data-src="http://placekitten.com/300/300" src="//:0" /></a>

<a href="#"><img data-src="http://asdf.com/broken.jpg" src="//:0" /></a> 
<!-- non valid URL -->

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('img').on ('error', function () {
        $(this).data('error',true);
    }).each(function() {
        $(this).attr('src',$(this).data('src'));
    });
    $('a').click(function () {
        if($(this).find('img').data('error') == true) alert('Image does not exist!');
        return false;
    });
});