I spent this weekend going thru the vulcanjs tutorials. I noticed one thing that was missing from the deployment guide was there was no heroku guide. I will make some notes here

Deploying VulcanJS on Heroku

Start with this: https://www.coshx.com/blog/2016/08/19/how-to-deploy-a-meteor-1-4-app-to-heroku/

well that was anticlimactic. that was it.