JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<a class="mylink" href="http://google.com">test</a>
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function () {
var oldurl = 'http://google.com';
var newurl = 'http://yahoo.com';
$('a[href="http://google.com"]').attr('href', 'http://yahoo.com');
//$('a[href="' + oldurl + '"').attr('href', newurl);
// it's not working too...
//$('.mylink').attr('href', newurl);
});