Messages not exchanged between content scripts, background.js and popup.js - javascript

I am trying to make a google-chrome extension which fetches selected text from the webpage and displays it in the popup. I've read google-chrome docs and have followed many questions but I have been unable to resolve this issue. Selected text cannot be sent to background.js and furthur to popup.js.
manifest.json:
{
"name": "Wordomania",
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 2,
"description": "Displays word on popup",
"icons": {
"16": "images/W.png"
},
"background": {
"scripts": [
"jquery-3.3.1.js",
"background.js"
],
"persistent": false
},
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": [
"http://*/*",
"https://*/*"
],
"js": ["content.js"]
}
],
"permissions": [
"background",
"tabs",
"http://*/*",
"https://*/*",
"activeTab"
],
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "images/W.png",
"default_title": "Wordomania"
}
}
background.js :
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) {
console.log('Extension button clicked');
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tab[0].id, {
action: 'sendWord'
}, function (wordObject) {
console.log('Word received');
let obj = {
word: wordObject.word,
from: 'back'
};
chrome.runtime.sendMessage(obj, function (status) {
console.log(status);
});
});
});
content.js :
function getSelectionText() {
let text = "";
if (window.getSelection) {
text = window.getSelection().toString();
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.type !== 'Control') {
text = document.selection.createRange().text;
}
return text;
}
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function (message, sender, sendResponse) {
if (message.action === 'sendWord') {
let text = getSelectionText();
sendResponse({word: text});
}
});
popup.html :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Wordomania</title>
<script src="popup.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1><p id="word"></p></h1>
<div id="body-of-popup"></div>
</body>
</html>
Help required!

Basically, you will need to do a few changes in your approach. Since, we can have only one event at a time assoiciated with the browserAction either popup or chrome.browserAction.onClicked. In your case you have a popup assoiciated so you can not use chrome.browserAction.onClicked.
But still you can achieve what you want using the code below.
// Add below code in your popup.js
document.body.onload = function() {
chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs) {
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, {greeting: "sendWord"}, function(response) {
alert(response.word);
});
});
};
Let the your content.js file as is.
manifest.json
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "images/W.png",
"default_popup": "popup.html",
"default_title": "Wordomania"
}
Hope this will solve your problem.

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