Question: I was told to add a tag being generated in Joomla. I just need to add the onload=... between the body tags. Is there a way to add the onload=... by itself or must it be part of the tag? Thanks!

Answer: 
Current version of angular-material will not work with angular 2.0, but i am sure there will be new branch(or version) which will be compatible with angualar 2.0.
I know this question is old, but I did discover today they have a link in the angular/material README that points to a repository they created specifically for the angular2 target of angular/material: <https://github.com/angular/material2>

It's still in alpha0.

As a suggestion, perhaps it might help to use something like <http://www.getmdl.io/> until material2 gets off the ground. It might allow you to prototype sooner.