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In principle you can just implement the bare base_local_planner interface. The idea of the section you cited is that some functionality is quite common among local planners, e.g. checkTrajectory. If your local planner behaves similarly it would be a good idea to use the same code. What makes more sense for you depends on your algorithm.

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