Using the demo project of angular2-mdl as a guide I ported the tab component and tried to implement it as following: import { Component } from '@angular/core'; @Component({ selector: 'my-dashboard', templateUrl: './landing.my.html' }) export class MyDashboard { public activeIndex = 0; public tabChanged({index}): void { this.activeIndex = index; } } and the template: <mdl-tabs mdl-ripple mdl-tab-active-index="0" (mdl-tab-active-changed)="tabChanged($event)"> <mdl-tab-panel mdl-tab-panel-title="home"> <mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-icon class="mdl-color-text--primary">home</mdl-icon><span>Home</span> </mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-tab-panel-content> <ul> <li>Stanis</li> <li>Joffrey</li> </ul> </mdl-tab-panel-content> </mdl-tab-panel> <mdl-tab-panel mdl-tab-panel-title="something"> <mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-icon class="mdl-color-text--primary">group_work</mdl-icon><span>Ontology</span> </mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-tab-panel-content> <ul> <li>Stanis</li> <li>Joffrey</li> </ul> </mdl-tab-panel-content> </mdl-tab-panel> <mdl-tab-panel mdl-tab-panel-title="another"> <mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-icon class="mdl-color-text--primary">list</mdl-icon><span>Cognitive</span> </mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-tab-panel-content> <ul> <li>Robert</li> </ul> </mdl-tab-panel-content> </mdl-tab-panel> <mdl-tab-panel mdl-tab-panel-title="else"> <mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-icon class="mdl-color-text--primary">call_split</mdl-icon><span>Cognition</span> </mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-tab-panel-content> <ul> <li>Robert</li> <li>Renly</li> </ul> </mdl-tab-panel-content> </mdl-tab-panel> <mdl-tab-panel mdl-tab-panel-title="last"> <mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-icon class="mdl-color-text--primary">backup</mdl-icon><span>Streaming</span> </mdl-tab-panel-title> <mdl-tab-panel-content> <ul> <li>Joffrey</li> <li>Myrcella</li> <li>Tommen</li> </ul> </mdl-tab-panel-content> </mdl-tab-panel> </mdl-tabs> I am using webpack and I get the following TypeScript error regarding implicit any types: ERROR in [default] home/my-app-ui/src/app/landing.my.ts:10:23 Binding element 'index' implicitly has an 'any' type. However the app displays the desired functionality, can someone explain how to fix this? Continue reading...