A solution I have found is If a mod only has base game dependancy this seems to work:
1. Download the 2.0 version of the mod
2. Extract the zip file
3. Go into the mod folder after extracting and edit the info.json file.
4. edit the version from 2.0 to 2.1
5. Zip the folder after the editing is done and move it to your factorio mods folder replacing or overwriting the previous one there.
Note: On windows, the factorio mods folder usually is %APPDATA%\Factorio\mods which you can enter after hitting Windows + R
