JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<a href='#'>Test</a>

CSS

body {
    color:#ffffff;
    font-family:"Helvetica";
    font-size:12pt;
    background-color:#000000;
    font-weight:bold;
}
a:link {
    color:white;
    text-decoration:none;
}
a.hover {
    -webkit-animation-name: myhover;
    -webkit-animation-duration: 1s;
    -webkit-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
    transition-timing-function: ease-in-out;
    font-weight: bold;
}
@-webkit-keyframes myhover {
    from {
        background-color: black;
        color: white;
    }
    to {
        background-color: white;
        color: black;
    }
}

a.hoverout {
    -webkit-animation-name: hoverout;
    -webkit-animation-duration: 1s;
    -webkit-animation-fill-mode: reverse;
    transition-timing-function: ease-in-out;
    font-weight: bold;
}

@-webkit-keyframes hoverout {
    from {
        background-color: white;
        color: black;
    }
    to {
        background-color: black;
        color: initial;
    }
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    $( "a" ).hover(  function() {
        $( this ).removeClass('hoverout').addClass( "hover" );
      }, function() {
        $( this ).removeClass( "hover" ).addClass("hoverout");
      });
});